Any link on installing the tools on centos 5.2/5.3? What are the gains of installing on a linux machine. I have always installed on a windows machine but not on a linux machine.
Right clicking on the machine name doesn't seem to install.
The NIC shows txqueuelen:1000 without installing the tools when i did -ifconfig
tnt
do not forget that in order to install VMware Tools in Linux, you will need the linux-headers package for the kernel installed
first, make sure to select the option to install VMware Tools (that way the VMware Tools iso will be mapped in the VM)
from the command line (as root):
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-xversion-<xxxx>.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Respond to the configuration questions on the screen
hope it is helpful
Jose B Ruelas
Hi,
still you can install VMware tools by right click on VM and install the VMware tools.
If you have access to VM (CentOS) console and installed its GUI (GNOME or KDE or ...) go to your CD drive and check it.
it should contain 1 or 2 file (I think both tar and rpm are there).
select the file for your OS and run it, it should open a console and ask you some question like resolution and if you want to auto start the VMware tools agent and ....
You can check this link for more information about installing VMware Tools on CentOS and other OS.
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do not forget that in order to install VMware Tools in Linux, you will need the linux-headers package for the kernel installed
first, make sure to select the option to install VMware Tools (that way the VMware Tools iso will be mapped in the VM)
from the command line (as root):
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-xversion-<xxxx>.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Respond to the configuration questions on the screen
hope it is helpful
Jose B Ruelas
Your welcome
I'm Beginner in Linux and just sometimes working with it to learn it, may I ask which Linux Header package needed for VMware tools?
As I mentioned before, because I'm newbie, I'm always installing Linux (CentOS or RHEL or ...) with All Package except the server tools and software which I may not need them, and never need anything to install VMware tools (may be its one affect of being a beginner )
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My OS is centos 5.2/5.3. I will do this at home. I am not sure about the type of header yet :).
tnt
It just depends on the Linux distribution.
If you are using Redhat or Clones, that are in the supported guest OS list, you may install the vmware-tools without any flaws right out of the box. VMware provides kernel modules compiled for that supported versions.
If one is using other distributions, most likely at the bleeding edge new ones, the modules provided by VMware are not matching to the specific kernel version. So one has to compile it's own modules (vmware-config.pl) and the compile process needs obviously a compiler and the appropriate kernel-headers all together with some tools (make and so on).
On some distributions (eg OpenSuSE) you will find the open-vmtools already added and installed. They get patched and redistributed, when new kernel patches are added. So one does not need to use a compiler.
Installing a linux server, i I usually install the smallest subset of a distribution. Less packages, less security concerns, less time to patch, less bandwith and downtimes
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Follow below mentioned steps
For Linux
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/vmware-linux-tools-<xxxxx>.i386.rpm
cd /tmp
rpm -Uhv
/tmp/vmware-linux-tools-<xxxxx>.i386.rpm
umount /mnt/cdrom
For solaris
/cdrom/vmwaretools.
If the
CD-ROM is not mounted, restart the volume manager using the following commands
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
After the CD-ROM is mounted, use the following commands to extract
VMware Tools.
cd /tmp
gunzip -c /cdrom/vmwaretools/vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz | tar xf -