Specifications

CHAPTER 3 Using VMware Tools
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Complete Installation
A complete installation installs the utilities to enhance the performance of the
guest operating system, and all the drivers — the VMware SVGA driver, the
VMware Mouse driver, the VMware SCSI driver, the VMware vmxnet networking
driver (the vlance driver is installed automatically when you created the virtual
machine) and the shared folders driver (for use by virtual machines with VMware
Workstation).
If you plan on using this virtual machine with other VMware products, use the
complete installation. To choose the complete installation, select Complete,
click Next, then go to step 7.
Custom Installation
A custom installation lets you pick and choose which components to install. You
can always run the installer again at a later date to install components you did
not install the first time, or remove components you no longer want. Select
Custom and click Next. The Custom Setup screen appears.
In the Custom Setup screen, pick and choose the components to install. Click the
arrow to the left of the component you do not want to install and select the
appropriate option from the menu.
If you need to determine how much free space is on the guest click Space. This is
useful if you are choosing a custom installation due to limited disk space on your
guest.
If you want to install all the VMware Tools components in a directory other than
the default, click Browse and select the directory. If the directory does not exist,
the installer creates it for you.
When you are ready to continue, click Next.