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Installing VMware Tools for Linux

  1. Power on the virtual machine. The following steps all take place inside the virtual machine, not on the host computer.

    Note: If you have an older version of VMware Tools installed, terminate the running version before installing the new one.

  2. Choose Settings > VMware Tools Install.

    Note: If you decide not to proceed with the installation of VMware Tools, you may cancel the operation by selecting Settings > Cancel VMware Tools Install.

  3. In a terminal, become root.
    su

  4. Mount the VMware Tools CD-ROM, copy its contents to /tmp, then unmount it.
    cd /
    mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
    cp /mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz /tmp
    umount /dev/cdrom

  5. Untar the VMware Tools tar file in /tmp and install it.
    cd /tmp
    tar zxf vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz
    cd vmware-linux-tools
    ./install.pl

  6. Start X and your graphical environment if they are not started yet.
  7. In an X terminal, launch the VMware Tools background application.
    vmware-toolbox &

    You may run the VMware Tools background application as root or as a normal user. The application will have additional capabilities if you run it as root.

Note: The ./install.pl installation script included with the VMware Tools for Linux package will not recognize Linux Mandrake installations. To install VMware Tools for Linux on top of Linux Mandrake installations, add redhat as a command line parameter when you run the installation script. For example, run the following command:
./install.pl redhat

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