[CentOS] Vmware server help

Sun Jul 16 03:07:59 UTC 2006
Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org>

Ken Key wrote:

>   - Copy the vmware tools ISO image out of the VM Host onto the
>     the Guest.  It is found in "/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso"
> 
>   - mount the ISO loopback and copy the RPM/tarball into /tmp/ - unmount

Actually, you don't need to copy the ISO image to the guest.  Just 
change definition of guest's CD-ROM drive to point to the ISO image. 
You'll need to change both path and type.  That's basically very similar 
to what happens when you click on "install vmware tools" in the 
vmware-console (it simulates that you inserted the CD into the guest's 
CD-ROM drive).  Not sure for the vmware server, but with ESX you can do 
this either in the web management interface, or while the client is 
running using vmware-console.

I'd also recommend to download latest version of the vmware tools from 
their web site.  The latest versions of vmware tools have precompiled 
kernel modules for CentOS 4.x (with older versions, you had to compile 
them on the guest).