Saturday, April 10, 2010

Install VMWare Tools in Guest Operating System

Before you begin, you should make sure that guest operating system running.

on the guest os login as root



On the VMWare workstation menu bar select VM=> Install vmware tools


A CMROM icon will be displayed on guest OS desktop

CM-ROM Content will be displayed automatically, right click the gzip and select extract.

Select the location and extract (Here i have extracted to desktop)

Open a terminal  (rightclick on desktop, and select Open terminal), chnage the directory to
#cd Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib
#ls -ltr
you can see a file with extention .pl
run that file for stating the installtion of VMware tools
#./vmware-install.pl

After finish installtion logout and login

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