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StressedVMUser
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How to install VMWareTools under Linux 8.1 or 9.x after pressing Install-Button

I have VMs with Suse 8.1 and 9.x as guest systems and try to install VMware Tools, when they are switched on. Only the minimal Linux system is installed

After pressing the Install - button in the console - menu, vSphere Client indicates, that VMware-Tools was mounted sucessfully.

What to do now, as installation seam to not continue?

Where could the mount point for VMWare-Tools be, that I could try to start it manually?

Many thanks for Your help in advance,

Yours StressedVMUser

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Dave_Mishchenko
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Your discussion has been moved to the Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum.

Dave Mishchenko

VMware Communities User Moderator

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AndreTheGiant
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VMware Tools in Linux has these step:

  • mount CD

  • install package

  • execute vmware-config-tools.pl

The last step must do in a console cause you will temporally loose network connectivity.

Andre

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Texiwill
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Hello,

THe mount point is where ever CDROMs are mounted on your distribution. For Linux, once you use the Install VMware Tools menu option, you almost always have to complete the installation by hand.


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