Perform An Interactive Upgrade Of Vmware Tools On A Linux Guest With The Rpm Installer - VMware ESX 4.0 - UPGRADE GUIDE UPDATE 1 Update Manual

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10 Answer the prompts and press Enter to accept the default values if appropriate for your configuration
and follow the instructions at the end of the script.
11 For Linux guest operating systems, execute the following commands to restore the network:
/etc/init.d/network stop
rmmod vmxnet
modprobe vmxnet
/etc/init.d/network start
12 Use the
exit
The VMware Tools label on the Summary tab changes to OK.
What to do next
(Recommended) Upgrade the virtual machine hardware to version 7.
Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with
the RPM Installer
Upgrade VMware Tools to the latest version to enhance the performance of the virtual machine's guest
operating system and improve virtual machine management.
Prerequisites
Back up your virtual machines to prevent data loss. See Basic System Administration.
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A supported guest operating system must be installed on the virtual machine.
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You must have an ESX/ESXi license or be using evaluation mode to power on the virtual machine.
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N The RPM installer is not available for ESXi hosts. Only the tar installer is available for ESXi hosts. For
OTE
ESXi hosts, see "Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the Tar Installer,"
on page 96.
Procedure
1 From the vSphere Client, right-click the virtual machine, select Power, and select Power On.
2 Select the virtual machine and click the Summary tab.
The VMware Tools label indicates whether VMware Tools is installed and current, installed and not
current, or not installed.
3 Click the Console tab to make sure that the guest operating system starts successfully, and log in if
necessary.
4 Right-click the virtual machine, select Guest, and select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.
5 Select Interactive Tools Upgrade and click OK.
The upgrade process starts by mounting the VMware Tools bundle on the guest operating system.
6 In the virtual machine console, log in as root (
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
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command to exit from the root account.
) and, if necessary, create the
su -
directory:
/mnt/cdrom
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