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Chapter 5 Installing and Using VMware Tools
4Ifnecessary,mounttheVMwareToolsvirtualCDROMimage.
Usually,theSolarisvolumemanagervoldmountstheCDROMunder
/cdrom/vmwaretools.IftheCDROMisnotmounted,restartthevolume
managerusingthefollowingcommands:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
5AftertheCDROMismounted,changetoaworkingdirectory(forexample,/tmp)
andextractVMwareToolsbyenteringthefollowingcommands:
cd /tmp
gunzip -c /cdrom/vmwaretools/vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz | tar xf -
6RuntheVMwareToolstarinstaller:
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Respondtotheconfigurationquestionsonthescreen.PressEntertoacceptthe
defaultvalues.
7Logoutoftherootaccount:
exit
8 (Optional)Startyourgraphicalenvironment.
9InanXterminal,tostarttheVMwareUserprocess,enterthefollowingcommand:
vmware-user
10 (Optional)TostarttheVMwareToolscontrolpanel,enterthefollowingcommand:
vmware-toolbox &
TochangethedefaultVMwareToolsconfigurationoptions,see“UsingtheVMware
ToolsControlPanelonpage 91.
YoucanrunVMwareToolsasrootorasanormaluser.Toshrinkvirtualdisksorchange
VMwareToolsscripts,youmustrunVMwareToolsasroot.