VMWare Tools Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
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This document provides instructions for installing VMWare Tools on a Linux virtual machine. It outlines pre-requisites like installing packages for kernel headers and tools. It then details steps to mount the VMWare Tools ISO, copy and extract the installer, run the installer script, and verify the installation. Troubleshooting tips are provided for potential issues with dependencies like net-tools, perl and fuse packages. Uninstallation instructions are also included.
VMWare Tools Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
- 1. VMWare Tools Installation Guide Contents Overview.......................................................................................................................................................1 Applies To......................................................................................................................................................1 Pre-requisites................................................................................................................................................1 Install Packages.........................................................................................................................................1 Invoke Install VMWare Tools – Host.........................................................................................................1 Create CDROM Mount Location ...............................................................................................................2 Mount CDROM..........................................................................................................................................3 Copy – VMWare Tools Installer ................................................................................................................3 Extract – VMWare Tools Installer .............................................................................................................3 Invoke Installer..........................................................................................................................................3 VMWare Tools Installation – Verify..............................................................................................................5 Troubleshooting Installation.........................................................................................................................6 Issue finding ipconfig ................................................................................................................................6 Issue bad interpreter ................................................................................................................................7 Fuse Packages ...........................................................................................................................................7 VMWare Tools Uninstallation.......................................................................................................................8
- 2. VMWare Tools Installation Guide 1 | P a g e Overview One of the advantages of installing VMware tools is faster graphics performance, shared folder access and drag and drop operations. Few other advantages are synchronization of time with guest OS on the host system time. Automatic grab and release of mouse cursor, copy and paste between guest and host system (requires fuse package) and also better mouse performance. Applies To Linux flavour of operating systems. Pre-requisites Before you start Installing VMWare Tools on the system, below packages have to be installed. Package Purpose net-tools To find IP information kernel-headers Kernel Headers kernel-libs Kernel Libraries kernel-devel Kernel development tools make Make binaries of the compiled source gcc Compile Source perl Interpreter for VMWare Tools Installer fuse Drag and Drop feature enabling for host and guest machine Install Packages yum install -y kernel-headers kernel-libs kernel-devel kernel-tools yum install -y gcc yum install -y make yum install -y perl yum install -y net-tools yum install -y fuse Invoke Install VMWare Tools – Host To install VMWare tools, you can choose one of the methods, as per the below screenshot.
- 3. VMWare Tools Installation Guide 2 | P a g e Create CDROM Mount Location After login into the guest machine, create the cdrom mount folder. mkdir /media/cdrom
- 4. VMWare Tools Installation Guide 3 | P a g e Mount CDROM Mount the cdrom to created mount location. mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/ Copy – VMWare Tools Installer Copy the installer to temporary folder. cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz /tmp/ or skip this step and directory extract from “/tmp” folder. Extract – VMWare Tools Installer After copying, decompress the tar file cd /tmp tar -zxvf /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz Invoke Installer Invoke the installer and follow the instructions, press “Enter” to accept the default values. cd vmware-tools-distrib/ ./vmware-install.pl
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- 6. VMWare Tools Installation Guide 5 | P a g e Note: Ideally, you could press “Enter”, though read the instructions and press enter for each question; complete the installation and reboot the guest system. VMWare Tools Installation – Verify VMware tools daemon should be running upon completion and reboot of VMware tools installation process. To verify run the ps command filtering “vmtoolsd” and to check details by running “ps -uw PID” as shown below pgrep -l vmtoolsd 26882 vmtoolsd ps -uw <pidof pgrep> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 26882 0.1 0.4 186916 4488 ? S 00:47 0:00 /usr/sbin/vmtoolsd
- 7. VMWare Tools Installation Guide 6 | P a g e Troubleshooting Installation Issue finding ipconfig Error: Unable to find the “Ipconfig” program. From Centos 7 onwards, IP configuration will be retrieved by command “ip addr”, so we need to install “net-tools” package. To net-tools package install run the command yum install net-tools
- 8. VMWare Tools Installation Guide 7 | P a g e Issue bad interpreter Error: “/usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory”. To perl package install run the command yum install perl Fuse Packages Error: system does not have the required fuse packages installed To resolve fuse issue, run yum install fuse fuse-libs
- 9. VMWare Tools Installation Guide 8 | P a g e VMWare Tools Uninstallation To uninstall VMWare tools, execute the command “vmware-uninstall-tools.pl”. /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools