[CentOS] Vmware server help

Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net
Sat Jul 15 15:13:42 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 13:19 +1000, Centos-admin wrote:
> Hello all,
> Do any of 
> you know a way to get vmware tools installed when you do not run a 
> graphical interface (ie runlevel of the box is 3) ? I cant seem to get 
> it going. Should I download the tools and copy them into the vm ?
> 

No, when your virtual machine is running, take the vmware console and
choose in the menu VM/Install VMWare tools .
It will swap your cd with a iso images containing the vmware-tools rpms.
If you're running in init3 (which is normal for a server) just mount
your cd from within a bash session and install the corresponding rpm.
If you're running a known kernel from vmware, you'll just have to
install the rpm and configure with vmware-tools-config.pl (if i remember
well ...)
> 
> Any help much appreciated as I'm not cutting over to use production VMs 
> until I can fix this.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Bards.
> 
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