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mkdir /tmp/cdrom | mkdir /tmp/cdrom | ||
mount /dev/cdrom /tmp/cdrom | mount /dev/cdrom /tmp/cdrom | ||
rpm -i /tmp/cdrom/VMwareTools- | rpm -i /tmp/cdrom/VMwareTools-7.7.6-203138.i386.rpm | ||
umount /dev/cdrom | umount /dev/cdrom | ||
rm -rf /tmp/cdrom | |||
/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl | /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl | ||
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Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it for your running kernel by invoking the foillowing command. | |||
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/usr/bin/vmware-config.tools.pl | |||
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=== Tools Removal === | |||
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rpm -e VMwareTools | |||
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[[Category : vmWare]] | [[Category : vmWare]] | ||
Latest revision as of 10:11, 19 November 2009
VMware tools are not required to be installed in any guest operating system that has been virtualized by VMware. However, 99% of all VMware users do install vmware tools. Let me tell you why.
VMware tools provide the following:
- Improved video performance
- Mouse synchronization with the host operating system so that you don't have to keep releasing your mouse from the guest to go back to the host
- Improved mouse performance
- Copy and paste between the host and guest
Mount the VMware tools ISO image for the virtual machine, then for.....
Linux
mkdir /tmp/cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /tmp/cdrom rpm -i /tmp/cdrom/VMwareTools-7.7.6-203138.i386.rpm umount /dev/cdrom rm -rf /tmp/cdrom /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it for your running kernel by invoking the foillowing command.
/usr/bin/vmware-config.tools.pl
Tools Removal
rpm -e VMwareTools
