I am using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron as the host operating system. Sean, thanks very much for your generous help. *This is what I am confused about.Thanks for your assistance. Installer database format before continuing.Ĥ Depending on whether you are using the tar installer or the RPM installer, do oneįor the tar installer, run the * VMware Tools tar installer: Reverse-the installer detects the previous installation and must convert the NOTE If you attempt to install an rpm installation over a tar installation-or the Where is the build/revision number of the Workstation release.įor the RPM installer, at the command prompt, enter: Tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-5.0.0-.tar.gz Often it isģ Uncompress the installer and unmount the CD‐ROM image.ĭepending on whether you are using the tar installer or the RPM installer, do oneįor the tar installer, at the command prompt, enter: The location of this directoryĭepends on where you placed it when you did the previous installation. Vmware-tools-distrib directory before installing. NOTE If you have a previous installation, delete the previous Point for a CD‐ROM is not /mnt/cdrom, you must modify the followingĬommands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution: If your CD‐ROM drive is not /dev/cdrom or if the mount Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the /devĭirectory differently. Where do I find the VMware Tools installer? You still must untar the VMware Tools installer to If yourĭistribution uses automounting, do not use the mount and umount commandsĭescribed in this procedure. NOTE Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD‐ROMs. Working directory (for example, /tmp), as follows. The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine.Ģ As root (su -), mount the VMware Tools virtual CD‐ROM image and change to a
To install VMware Tools with the tar installer or RPM installerġ Power on the virtual machine, and after the guest system has started, choose I've looked at the following numerous times: I keep thinking that there's another file perhaps vmware-tools-distrib that needs to be installed but I'm unclear on this. I have reinstalled VMWare Workstation 6.0.5 twice and this does not solve the problem. I find that the folder vmware-tools-distrib is not to be found. I get the activity image but it never loads tools. After the guest os has been been booted in VMWare I select VM and then attempt to load tools, tools will not load. I've created to guest operating systems and use isos for them. I then loaded vmware from the command line.
#Vmware 6.0 how to install vmware tools archive#
"a Copy the tar archive to a temporary directory on your hard drive (for example, /tmp):
Sean, thanks again for your response this is what I have done - how I installed vmware workstation 6.05.