https://sigtar.com/tags/vmware-tools/ Recent content in Vmware-Tools on sigtar.com Hugo en-nz Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2010/09/05/linux-install-vmware-tools-onto-guest/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2010/09/05/linux-install-vmware-tools-onto-guest/ <p>fire up the vm, then run the following after initiating a vmware tools install&hellip;</p> <p><strong>mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom cd /tmp tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x.gz cd vmware-tools-disstrib ./vmware-install.pl</strong></p> <p>Then just follow the prompts through to the end.</p> <p>If your running fedora or similar make sure your&rsquo;ve got gcc and kernel headers&hellip;. (you&rsquo;ll probably have to update kernel too)</p> <p><strong>yum update shutdown -r now yum install -y gcc make kernel-devel perl</strong></p> <p>Ubuntu 12.x</p> <p><strong>apt-get install open-vm-tools</strong></p>