Installing and Configuring
Table Of Contents
- Installing and Configuring VMware Tools
- Contents
- About Installing and Configuring VMware Tools
- Components of VMware Tools
- Installing and Upgrading VMware Tools
- Installing VMware Tools
- Upgrading VMware Tools
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Windows Virtual Machine
- Automate the Installation of VMware Tools in a Windows Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Solaris Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a FreeBSD Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Mac OS X Virtual Machine
- Repairing, Changing, and Uninstalling VMware Tools Components
- Using the VMware Tools Configuration Utility
- Using Other Methods to Configure VMware Tools
- Security Considerations for Configuring VMware Tools
- Index
Procedure
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If you use VMware Workstation or Player, use the setup.exe command.
a Open a command prompt in the guest operating system and change directories to the virtual CD/DVD
drive.
b Enter the setup.exe command with any MSI arguments.
setup.exe /S /v "/qn
msi_args
"
To exclude some of the VMware Tools components, use the ADDLOCAL and REMOVE options.
setup.exe /S /v "/qn
msi_args
ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=
component
"
For example, the following command performs a silent installation and suppresses rebooting when
installation is complete. This command also installs all components except the shared folders
component.
setup.exe /S /v "/qn REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs"
The next example shows the same command, but with logging added.
setup.exe /S /v "/qn /l*v ""%TEMP%\vmmsi.log"" REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs"
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If you use vCenter Server, use the Virtual Machines tab to select multiple virtual machines.
a In the Inventory > Hosts and Clusters view, select the host, cluster, or datacenter and click the Virtual
Machines tab.
b Control-click or Shift-click to select the virtual machines.
c Right-click and select Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.
d Complete the dialog box.
To specify any MSI arguments or to specify which VMware Tools components to exclude, add the
same arguments and options that you would for the setup.exe program in the Advanced text box.
Names of VMware Tools Components Used in Silent Installations
In Windows virtual machines, when running an automatic installation or running an installation of VMware
Tools using the command line, you can specify which VMware Tools components to install.
Because VMware Tools contains so many components, if you do not want to install particular components,
you specify which ones to exclude rather than which ones to include. The syntax is ADDLOCAL=ALL
REMOVE=
component
. The valid values for VMware Tools components are listed in the following table.
Not all components are installed on all operating systems.
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