Installing VMWare Tools

Table of contents
  1. 1. Debian/Ubuntu
  2. 2. Red Hat/CentOS

 

Debian/Ubuntu
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  1. Shut down the VM.
  2. Add an IDE cdrom drive.
  3. Power on the vm.
  4. In VI Client, select the VM and choose Install VMWare Tools.
  5. Log into VM and run the following commands.

   

# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-[version].tar.gz /tmp
# tar xfvz /tmp/VMwareTools-[version].tar.gz
# cd /tmp/VMwareTools-[version]/vmware-tools-distrib/
# apt-get update
# apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-`uname -r`
# ./vmware-install.pl

If the installation script asks, the "killall" process is located in /etc/init.d/killprocs.

Accept all the default values in vmware-install.pl.

   

Finally, reboot your vm:

reboot

 

 

Red Hat/CentOS
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  1. Shut down the VM.
  2. Add an IDE cdrom drive.
  3. Power on the vm.
  4. In VI Client, select the VM and choose Install VMWare Tools.
  5. Log into VM and run the following commands.

  

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cd /mnt/cdrom
# cp VMwareTools-[version].i386.rpm /tmp
# cd /tmp
# rpm -i VMwareTools-[version].i386.rpm

 

Finally, reboot your vm:

reboot

 

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