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Chapter 10 Creating Virtual Machines
To install or upgrade VMware Tools on a Linux guest with the tar installer or RPM
installer
1Openaconsoletothevirtualmachine.
2Poweronthevirtualmachine.
3Aftertheguestoperatingsystemstarts,right‐clickthevirtualmachineandchoose
InstallVMwareTools.
Theremainingstepstakeplaceinsidethevirtualmachine.
4Asroot(su -),mounttheVMwareToolsvirtualCD‐ROMimageandchange
toa
workingdirectory(forexample,/tmp),asfollows.
SomeLinuxdistributionsusedifferentdevicenamesororganizethe/dev
directorydifferently.Modifythefollowingcommandstoreflecttheconventions
usedbyyourdistribution:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
NOTESomeLinuxdistributionsautomaticallymountCD‐ROMs.Ifyour
distributionusesautomounting,donotusethemountandumountcommands
describedinthisprocedure.YoustillmustuntartheVMwareToolsinstallerto
/tmp.
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OTEIfyouhaveapreviousinstallation,deletetheprevious
vmware-tools-distribdirectorybeforeinstalling.Thedefaultlocationofthis
directoryis:
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib