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

Install Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 on VMware Workstation - Part 2

Open the workstation and select the virtual machine you want to install the guest os.

I have used image file for installing (you can see the post: how to configure image file for installation)

Click start virtual machine to start the installation

Press enter to continue the instllation

Press tab button to select the skip button (to skip media check)

Wait ...

Welcome screen appears

Select the prefered langugae from the list 

If you have licence number enter the number

Click Yes to initialize the disk

Select review and partition disk layout

Click Yes to remove all existing partitions

Volumn information page will display

Size the boot partion to 150MB

Partion review page appears

Accept the default information and continue

Network configuration page , I have used manul configuration instead of DHCP

Manuly configuring network

Enter the name of the machine , gate way and primary DSN

Select the location

Create the root password

You can customize the package selection using customize now option

Select the packages you want to use

Installation summary page appears click next to start the installtion

Installation progress

Click reboot to finish the installation and reboot you need to follow the intial configuration.

After reboot you can see a welcome page

Accept the license agreement

Setup firewall , in this installtion i have disabled the firewall

Click Yes to continue

On the SELinux screen selet disable and click forward

Click Yes to continue

Accept the default setting and continue

Adjust the date and time

Registered later option and continue (Internet connection required if you use register now)

Click conintue

Optional click next to conintue

Accept default and continue

Continue

Click Yes

Once the system rebooted, you can see a login page

Enter the user name and password. Desktop will appear

How to install guest OS from image file

Open VM workstation and select the virtual Machine settings

Select CD/DVD and right hand side browse the location of image file

Clik ok finish

Now you can start virtual machine for installtion

Create Shared Folder in VMware And access the shared folder from guest OS

share files among virtual machines and the host computer
Start the VMware and select the virtual machine

Click on Edit virtual Machine Settings, following dialog will appear.

Go to tab option and select shared Folders

Right side you can see 3 options. Select Always enabled or Enabled until next power off or suspend.
clicking Add starts the Add Shared Folder wizard. On Linux, it opens the Shared Folder Properties dialog box

Add button will open above wizard dialog, please follow the instruction on this wzard screen

You can name the folder using Name field (this name will apear on guest os)

The above mesage will no appear if you are using local folder for sharing

Select the prefered option you like

Now click ok to finish.

How to access this folder in Linux :

After log in : open terminal

$/mnt/hgfs or #/mnt/hgfs