VMware CLOUD DIRECTOR 1.0 Manual page 76

Cloud Director User's Guide
4 In the guest operating system, start the RPM installer.
Double-click the VMware Tools CD icon on your desktop and double-click the RPM installer in the
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root of the CD-ROM.
Double-click the RPM installer in the file manager window.
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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
8 Press Enter to accept the default value.
9 After the upgrade is complete, enter
10 Type .
exit
11 To start the VMware Tools control panel, enter
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
The VMware Remote Console plug-in is installed.
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With an existing installation, delete the
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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 (
to a working directory, for example, enter
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
Linux distributions use different device names or organize the
drive is not
/dev/cdrom
to reflect the conventions used by your distribution.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
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vmware-config-tools.pl
/etc/init.d/network
vmware-toolbox &
vmware-tools-distrib
).
), mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image and change
su-
.
/tmp
, or if the mount point for a CD-ROM is not
script to configure VMware Tools.
to restart the network.
.
directory before you install. The location
directory differently. If your CD-ROM
/dev
, modify these commands
/mnt/cdrom
. Some
/tmp
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