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

vSphere Upgrade Guide
Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with
the Tar 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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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
7 Mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image.
Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD-ROMs. Verify the state by running the
command. If the CD-ROM device is mounted, each of the device's partitions with a recognized file system
appears in the output of the
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
If the CD-ROM device is listed, it is mounted. If the CD-ROM device is already mounted, do not use the
and
mount umount
Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the
the following commands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
8 Change to a working directory (for example,
cd /tmp
9 If you have a previous installation, delete the previous
rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
The default location of this directory is:
10 List the contents of the
ls /mnt/cdrom
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command as something like this:
mount
commands.
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
directory, and note the filename of the VMware Tools tar installer:
/mnt/cdrom/
) and, if necessary, create the
su -
/dev
):
/tmp
vmware-tools-distrib
.
directory:
/mnt/cdrom
mount
directory differently. Modify
directory:
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