How to install VMware tools

How to install Vmware tools

There are lot of ways this process To follow there are

install VMware Tools in a Linux guest operating system using RPM:

Ensure that your Linux virtual machine is powered on.

If you are running a GUI interface, open a command shell.

Click VM in the virtual machine menu, then click Guest > Install/Upgrade Vmware Tools and click
OK.

To create a mount point, run:

 mkdir /mnt/cdrom  (check your system once before do the process)

To mount the CDROM, run:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

To install VMware Tools using RPM, run:( RPM - package installer)

rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-version.rpm( chck once it's available your server or system or not before  do the process or staart the process)

Where <version> is the version of VMware Tools you want to install

To check the existing version of VMware Tools, use the "cd" command to go to /mnt/cdrom/ directory and list the contents of the directory with the command # ls.

Note:You can only perform the install as a root user or by using the sudo command.

To configure VMware Tools for your running kernel, run:

/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl

To unmount the CDROM, run:

umount /mnt/cdrom

To end the VMware Tools install, click VM in the virtual machine menu, then clickGuest > End VMware Tools Install.