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Chapter 10 Creating Virtual Machines
To install or upgrade VMware Tools on a Solaris guest
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.
4Loginasroot(su -)and,ifnecessary,mounttheVMwareToolsvirtual
CD‐ROM
image,asfollows.
Usually,theSolarisvolumemanager—vold—mountstheCD‐ROMunder
/cdrom/vmwaretools.IftheCD‐ROMisnotmounted,restartthevolume
managerusingthefollowingcommands:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
5AftertheCD‐ROMismounted,changetoaworkingdirectory(forexample,/tmp)
andextractVMwareTools,asfollows:
cd /tmp
gunzip -c /cdrom/vmwaretools/vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz | tar xf -
6RuntheVMwareToolstarinstaller:
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Respondtotheconfigurationquestionsonthescreen.PressEntertoacceptthe
defaultvalue.
7Logoffoftherootaccount.
exit
8Startyourgraphicalenvironment.
9InanXterminal,opentheVMwareToolsPropertiesdialogbox:
vmware-toolbox &