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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
6 Uncompress the installer and unmount the CD-ROM image.
If you install an RPM installation over a tar installation, or the reverse, the installer detects the previous
installation and must convert the installer database format before continuing.
Option Action
In the tar installer
At the command prompt, type
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-4.0.0-xxxx.tar.gz unmount /
dev/cdrom where xxxx is the build or revision number of the release.
In the RPM installer
At the command prompt, type
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-4.0.0-<xxxx>.i386.gz unmount
/dev/cdrom where <xxxx> is the build/revision number of the release.
7 Run the installer.
Option Action
In the tar installer
Type cd vmware-tools-distrib./vmware-install.pl. Press Enter to
accept the default value.
In the RPM installer
Configure VMware Tools, type vmware-config-tools.pl Press Enter to
accept the default value.
8 After the upgrade is complete, restart the network by running /etc/init.d/network restart.
9 Type exit.
10 Start your graphical environment.
11 In an X terminal, run vmware-toolbox &.
Install VMware Tools on a Solaris Guest
You can install VMware Tools on a Solaris guest OS.
Prerequisites
The VMware Remote Console plug-in is installed.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click VMs.
3 Select a Solaris virtual machine, right click, and select Open Console.
4 Click Install VMware Tools.
5 In the virtual machine, log in as root and, if necessary, mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image.
The Solaris volume manager vold mounts the CD-ROM under /cdrom/vmwaretools.
6 If the CD-ROM is not mounted, restart the volume manager by running these commands.
n
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
n
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
7 After the CD-ROM is mounted, change to a working directory, for example, /tmp and extract VMware
Tools.
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cd /tmp
n
gunzip -c /cdrom/vmwaretools/vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz | tar xf-
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