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CHAPTER 5 Setting Policies and Customizing VMware ACE
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The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine.
3. You may install VMware Tools in text mode or from a terminal in an X window
session.
4. As root (su -), mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image, change to a
working directory (for example, /tmp), uncompress the installer, then unmount
the CD-ROM image.
Note: You do not use an actual CD-ROM to install VMware Tools, nor do you
need to download the CD-ROM image or burn a physical CD-ROM of this image
file. The VMware ACE software contains an ISO image that looks like a CD-ROM to
your guest operating system. This image contains all the files needed to install
VMware Tools in your guest operating system.
Note: Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the
/dev directory differently. If your CD-ROM drive is not /dev/cdrom, modify
the following commands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /tmp
tar zxf /mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz
umount /mnt
5. Run the VMware Tools installer.
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Respond to the questions the installer displays on the panel. Be sure to respond
yes when the installer offers to run the configuration program.
6. Log off of the root account.
exit
7. Start X and your graphical environment if they are not already running.
Note: If this is the first time you have installed VMware Tools in this virtual
machine, you must restart X to activate graphics and mouse features in the
VMware Tools package.
8. In an X terminal, launch the VMware Tools application in the background.
vmware-toolbox &
Note: You may run VMware Tools as root or as a normal user. To shrink virtual
disks, you must run VMware Tools as root (su -).