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Chapter 2 Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines
If!you!are!installing!on!a!virtual!machine!that!was!created!with!VMware!
Workstation!and!used!networking,!use!an!address!different!from!the!one!the!
original!network!configuration!used!(that!address!is!assigned!to!the!now!
nonexistent!virtual!AMD!card).!Or!change!the!address!assigned!to!the!AMD!card.!
7When!installation
!is!complete,!and!before!you!reboot,!choose!Settings!>!Cancel!
Tools!Install!to!disconnect!the!ISO!image!file!and!return!the!virtual!machine’s!
CD‐ROM!drive!to!its!original!configuration.
8 Reboot!the!virtual!machine.!
To Install VMware Tools in a Linux Guest
1 Choose!Settings!>!VMware!Tools!Install!and!click!Install.
This!step!connects!the!virtual!machine’s!CD‐
ROM!driv e!to!an!ISO!image!file!on!the!
ESX!Server!machine.
2In!your!Linux!guest,!become!root,!mount!the!VMware!Tools!virtual!CD‐ROM,!copy!
the!installer!file!from!the!virtual!CD‐ROM!to!/tmp,!and!unmount!the!CD‐ROM.!
su
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
cp /mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz /tmp
umount /dev/cdrom
3Untar!the!VMware!Tools!tar!file!in!/tmp!and!install!it.!
cd /tmp
tar zxf vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
4 Choose!directories!for!the!files.
5Enter!a!display!size!for!the!virtual!machine!and!press!Enter.
6Start!X!and!your! graphical!environment!and!launch!the!VMware!Tools!
background!application.!
vmware-toolbox &
NOTE The!VMware!Virtual!Ethernet!Adapter!driver!runs!correctly!only!if!you!have!
Service!Pack!3!or!later!installed.!If!you!do!not!have!the!correct!service!pack!
installed,!you!might!get!an!error!message!such!as:!
System Process Driver Entry Point Not Found; The
\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\vmxnet.sys device driver
could not locate the entry point NdisGetFirstBufferFromPacket
in driver NDIS.SYS.