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Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in A Linux Virtual Machine PDF

To manually install or upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux virtual machine, you must: 1. Mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image containing the installer. 2. Run the tar command to uncompress the installer files. 3. Run the vmware-install.pl script and follow prompts to configure VMware Tools. 4. Reboot the guest operating system or follow additional instructions to complete the installation.

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Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in A Linux Virtual Machine PDF

To manually install or upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux virtual machine, you must: 1. Mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image containing the installer. 2. Run the tar command to uncompress the installer files. 3. Run the vmware-install.pl script and follow prompts to configure VMware Tools. 4. Reboot the guest operating system or follow additional instructions to complete the installation.

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ManuallyInstallorUpgradeVMwareToolsinaLinuxVirtualMachine

ForLinuxvirtualmachines,youmanuallyinstallorupgradeVMwareToolsbyusingthecommandline.
Prerequisites

Poweronthevirtualmachine.

Verifythattheguestoperatingsystemisrunning.

BecausetheVMwareToolsinstalleriswritteninPerl,verifythatPerlisinstalledintheguestoperatingsystem.

Procedure
1

Onthehost,fromtheWorkstationPromenubar,selectVM>InstallVMwareTools.
IfanearlierversionofVMwareToolsisinstalled,themenuitemisUpdateVMwareTools.

Inthevirtualmachine,logintotheguestoperatingsystemasrootandopenaterminalwindow.

RunthemountcommandwithnoargumentstodeterminewhetheryourLinuxdistributionautomaticallymountedthe
VMwareToolsvirtualCDROMimage.
IftheCDROMdeviceismounted,theCDROMdeviceanditsmountpointarelistedassomethinglikethis:

/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)


4

IftheVMwareToolsvirtualCDROMimageisnotmounted,mounttheCDROMdrive.
a

Ifamountpointdirectorydoesnotalreadyexist,createit.

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
SomeLinuxdistributionsusedifferentmountpointnames.Forexample,onsomedistributionsthemountpoint
is/media/VMware Toolsratherthan/mnt/cdrom.Modifythecommandtoreflecttheconventionsthat
yourdistributionuses.
b

MounttheCDROMdrive.

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom


SomeLinuxdistributionsusedifferentdevicenamesororganizethe/devdirectorydifferently.IfyourCD
ROMdriveisnot/dev/cdromorifthemountpointforaCDROMisnot/mnt/cdrom,modifythecommand
toreflecttheconventionsthatyourdistributionuses.
5

Changetoaworkingdirectory,forexample,/tmp.

cd /tmp
6

Deleteanypreviousvmware-tools-distribdirectorybeforeyouinstallVMwareTools.
Thelocationofthisdirectorydependsonwhereyouplaceditduringthepreviousinstallation.Oftenthisdirectoryis
placedin/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.

ListthecontentsofthemountpointdirectoryandnotethefilenameoftheVMwareToolstarinstaller.

ls mount-point
8

Uncompresstheinstaller.

tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz


Thevaluex.x.xistheproductversionnumber,andyyyyisthebuildnumberoftheproductrelease.
IfyouattempttoinstallatarinstallationoveranRPMinstallation,orthereverse,theinstallerdetectstheprevious
installationandmustconverttheinstallerdatabaseformatbeforecontinuing.
9

Ifnecessary,unmounttheCDROMimage.

umount /dev/cdrom
IfyourLinuxdistributionautomaticallymountedtheCDROM,youdonotneedtounmounttheimage.
10

RuntheinstallerandconfigureVMwareTools.

cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Usually,thevmware-config-tools.plconfigurationfilerunsaftertheinstallerfilefinishesrunning.
11

Followthepromptstoacceptthedefaultvalues,ifappropriateforyourconfiguration.

12

Followtheinstructionsattheendofthescript.
Dependingonthefeaturesyouuse,theseinstructionscanincluderestartingtheXsession,restartingnetworking,
logginginagain,andstartingtheVMwareUserprocess.Youcanalternativelyreboottheguestoperatingsystemto
accomplishallthesetasks.

Whattodonext
Ifanewvirtualhardwareversionisavailableforthevirtualmachine,upgradethevirtualhardware.

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