• Installing VMware Tools within X You can install VMware Tools within X using the.tar installer in a terminal window. To install VMware Tools from X with the RPM installer: 1.Choose VM >Install VMware Tools.

The guest operating system mounts the VMware Tools installation virtual CD. 2.Double-click the VMware Tools CD icon on the desktop. Note: In some Linux distributions, the VMware Tools CD icon may fail to appear when you install VMware Tools within an X windows session on a guest. In this case, you should continue installing VMware Tools as described in, beginning with step 3. Torrent Intervista Col Vampiro Film there.

3.Double-click the RPM installer in the root of the CD-ROM. 4.Enter the root password. 5.Click Continue. The installer prepares the packages. 6.Click Continue when the installer presents a dialog box saying Completed System Preparation. A dialog appears for Updating system, with a progress bar.

Checking the VMware Tools version. Updating VMware Tools. Installing VMware Tools. Uninstalling VMware Tools. Troubleshooting 'Setup can't continue because a later version of this product is already installed' error. Installing VMware Tools within X. Note: If you have a previous installation, delete the previous vmware-distrib directory before installing. How to Manually Remove VMware Tools. And re-install VMware Tools. To force removal of all registry entries and delete the old version of VMware Tools.

When the installer is done, VMware Tools are installed. There is no confirmation or finish button. 7.In an X terminal, as root ( su -), configure VMware Tools. Vmware-config-tools.pl Respond to the questions the installer displays on the screen.

Press Enter to accept the default value. Note: Be sure to respond yes when the installer offers to run the configuration program. 8.Launch the VMware Tools background application: vmware-toolbox & Note: Some guest operating systems require a reboot for full functionality.

Installing VMware Tools from the Command Line with the Tar Installer The first steps are performed on the host, within Workstation menus: 1.Power on the virtual machine. 2.After the guest operating system has started, prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools. Choose VM >Install VMware Tools. The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine. 3.As root ( su -), mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image, change to a working directory (for example, /tmp), uncompress the installer, then unmount the CD-ROM image.

Note: Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD-ROMs. If your distribution uses automounting, do not use the mount and umount commands below.

You still must untar the VMware Tools installer to /tmp. Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the /dev directory differently. If your CD-ROM drive is not /dev/cdrom or if the mount point for a CD-ROM is not /mnt/cdrom, you must modify the following commands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution. Mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom cd /tmp Note: If you have a previous installation, delete the previous vmware-distrib directory before installing. The default location of this directory is /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib. 4.Untar the VMware Tools tar file: tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-5.0.0.tar.gz umount /dev/cdrom Where is the build/revision number of the VMware Workstation release.

Note: If you attempt to install a tar installation over an rpm installation — or the reverse — the installer detects the previous installation and must convert the installer database format before continuing. 5.Run the.tar VMware Tools installer: cd vmware-tools-distrib./vmware-install.pl Respond to the configuration questions on the screen. Press Enter to accept the default value.