VMTools Install

Jezell

Joined: 2007-03-15
Posts: 2
Posted: Thu, 2007-03-15 22:09

I am new to VMware, Gallery and Linux. I am wondering how to install the VMware tools on the appliance. It seems the tools come as a rpm but the applicance uses conary to install packages. Does anyone know how to do this?
 
h0bbel
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Posted: Fri, 2007-03-16 22:53

Just follow the documentation in your VMware product. Normally the tools are just a tar.gz file on a virtual cd that you need to mount and then extract the files. After that you run a shell script to install them.

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Jezell

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Posted: Mon, 2007-03-19 20:48

I found the answer

Create a directory for the mount point like /vmtools (off of the root "mkdir vmtools")
At command line of the guest type machine
Mount –t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /vmtools (last part here is the directory you create for the mount point)
Cd to the mount point even if you are already there.
You see two files one is rpm file and other is source file
Had to unzip the tar file
Copy the tar file to /tmp directory
Unzip the file
Command was tar –xzvf filename.tgz
Ran the install ./vmware-install.pl (from the tmp directory)

That worked.
 
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Posted: Tue, 2007-03-20 12:22

Excellent, thanks for the detailed instructions.

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bscheringa

Joined: 2007-07-08
Posts: 2
Posted: Tue, 2007-10-09 08:03
wdekreij wrote:
Jezell wrote:
I found the answer

Create a directory for the mount point like /vmtools (off of the root "mkdir vmtools")
At command line of the guest type machine
Mount –t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /vmtools (last part here is the directory you create for the mount point)
Cd to the mount point even if you are already there.
You see two files one is rpm file and other is source file
Had to unzip the tar file
Copy the tar file to /tmp directory
Unzip the file
Command was tar –xzvf filename.tgz
Ran the install ./vmware-install.pl (from the tmp directory)

That worked.

Thanx A LOT!

That saved me some time, thanks a bunch!
 
Amarylus

Joined: 2009-01-21
Posts: 1
Posted: Wed, 2009-01-21 18:31

Ans where can I find that vmtools package. I tried but it's always about the mess of installing an other software to make it work. Installed Java and still pops me out some errors.

Any link to the vmtools package that may work ?