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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director User's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Understanding VMware Cloud Director
- Managing Users and Groups
- Using the Resources Available to Your Organization
- Working in an Organization
- Set Up an Organization
- Review Your Organization Profile
- Modify Your Email Settings
- Modify Your Organization's Policies
- Enable Guest Personalization in Your Organization
- Manage Users and Groups in Your Organization
- Manage Resources in Your Organization
- Manage Virtual Machines in Your Organization
- Viewing Organization Log Tasks and Events
- Working with Catalogs
- Working with Media Files
- Working with vApp Templates
- Open a vApp Template
- Add a vApp Template to My Cloud
- Download a vApp Template
- Upload an OVF Package as a vApp Template
- Resume the Upload of a vApp Template
- Add a vApp Template from a Catalog
- Copy a vApp Template to a Published Catalog
- Move a vApp Template to a Published Catalog
- Delete a vApp Template
- Save a vApp as a vApp Template
- Modify vApp Template Properties
- Working with vApps
- Add a vApp From a Catalog in Your Organization
- Create a New vApp
- Understanding vApps
- Working with Networks in a vApp
- Copy a vApp Template and Save it as a vApp
- Edit vApp Properties
- Delete a vApp
- Start a vApp
- Start a vApp with an Older Version of VMware Tools
- Stop a vApp
- Suspend a vApp
- Discard the Suspended State of a vApp
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Share a vApp
- Power on and Force Recustomization of a Virtual Machine
- Save vApp as a vApp Template to Your Catalog
- Change the Owner of a vApp
- Copy a vApp to Another vDC
- Move a vApp to Another vDC
- Delete Virtual Machines from a vApp
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Open a Virtual Machine Console
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Discard the Suspended State of a Virtual Machine
- Insert a CD/DVD
- Eject a CD/DVD
- Insert a Floppy
- Eject a Floppy
- Copy or Move a Virtual Machine to a vApp
- Delete a Virtual Machine
- Managing Your Virtual Machines
- Installing VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools in a New Virtual Machine with No Guest Operating System
- Installing VMware Tools in a vApp
- Install VMware Tools in a Virtual Machine in a vApp
- Install VMware Tools in a vApp Template
- Install VMware Tools With Guest Customization Disabled
- Upgrade VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools on a Windows Guest
- Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest in X with the RPM Installer
- Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the Tar Installer or RPM Installer
- Install VMware Tools on a Solaris Guest
- Guest Operating System Support
- Install a Guest Operating System
- Customizing Your Guest Operating System
- Understanding Guest Customization
- Customizing a Guest OS When Saving a vApp Template as a vApp
- Enable or Disable Guest Customization
- Change Guest Customization Settings for Virtual Machines in a vApp Template
- Customize Your Windows NT vApp Template
- Customize Your Solaris vApp Template
- Upload a Customization Script
- Reset Your Virtual Machine's Password
- Domain Join Requirements for Windows
- Join a Windows Guest Domain During Guest Operating System Personalization
- Guest Operating System Support
- Index
4 In the guest operating system, start the RPM installer.
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Double-click the VMware Tools CD icon on your desktop and double-click the RPM installer in the
root of the CD-ROM.
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Double-click the RPM installer in the file manager window.
5 Type the root password and click OK.
6 Click Continue when the package is ready.
When VMware Tools is installed, no confirmation or Finish button appears.
7 In an X terminal, as root, run the vmware-config-tools.pl script to configure VMware Tools.
8 Press Enter to accept the default value.
9 After the upgrade is complete, enter /etc/init.d/network to restart the network.
10 Type exit.
11 To start the VMware Tools control panel, enter vmware-toolbox &.
Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the Tar Installer or RPM Installer
You can use a Tar command or RPM installer to install VMware tools on a Linux guest OS with a Tar or RPM.
Prerequisites
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The VMware Remote Console plug-in is installed.
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With an existing installation, delete the vmware-tools-distrib directory before you install. The location
of this directory depends on where you placed it during the previous installation (such as,
tmp/vmware-tools-distrib).
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click VMs.
3 Select a Linux virtual machine, right-click, and select Open Console.
4 Click Install VMware Tools.
5 In the guest operating system, as root (su-), mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image and change
to a working directory, for example, enter /tmp.
Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD-ROMs. If your distribution uses automounting, do not
use the mount and unmount commands. You still must untar the VMware Tools installer to /tmp. Some
Linux distributions use different device names or organize the /dev directory differently. If your CD-ROM
drive is not /dev/cdrom, or if the mount point for a CD-ROM is not /mnt/cdrom, modify these commands
to reflect the conventions used by your distribution.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
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