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Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the RPM Installer
Install VMware Tools to the latest version to enhance the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating
system and improve virtual machine management.
Before you install or upgrade VMware Tools on a virtual machine, determine the status of VMware Tools. To
do this, 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.
N RPM packages are not available with the ESXi installer. Only the tar package is available for ESXi hosts.
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Prerequisites
The following items are prerequisites for completing this procedure:
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 Click the Console tab to make sure that the guest operating system starts successfully, and log in if
necessary.
3 Right-click the virtual machine, select Guest, and select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.
4 Select Interactive Tools Installation and click OK.
This step initiates the installation process by mounting the VMware Tools bundle on the guest operating
system.
5 In the virtual machine console, log in as root (
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
6 Mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image.
Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD-ROMs. If your distribution uses automounting, do not
use the
mount
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
cd /tmp
7 Change to a working directory (for example,
cd /tmp
8 If you have a previous installation, delete the previous
rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
The default location of this directory is:
9 List the contents of the
ls /mnt/cdrom
10 Uncompress the rpm installer:
rpm -Uhv /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-4.0.0-<xxxxxx>.i386.rpm
Where
<xxxxxx>
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and commands in this procedure.
umount
directory, and note the filename of the VMware Tools rpm installer:
/mnt/cdrom/
is the build/revision number of the ESX/ESXi release.
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su -
):
/tmp
vmware-tools-distrib
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
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directory:
/mnt/cdrom
directory differently. Modify
/dev
directory:
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