VMware Tools: Difference between revisions
From KlavoWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
New page: 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 w... |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 06:40, 17 December 2008
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-2.0.0-116503.i386.rpm umount /dev/cdrom /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
