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When a new update of VMWare comes out, and it is time to upgrade VMWare Tools. Here’s an update on the instructions for upgrading VMWare Tools 6.0.1 through 6.0.4:

  1. Navigate to the VMWare Menu, choose Virtual Machine and in the drop down menu Install VMWare Tools. This will mount a virtual CD in the Oracle Unbreakable Linux virtual machine and it launches the following dialog box:
VMware962

  1. Open a terminal session by right clicking anywhere in the desktop, and then choose Open in Terminal from the context menu. You can then run the VMWare Toolkit by following these instructions as the root user:

The instructions for VMWare 6.0.0 through 6.0.2 are:

cd /media/VMware\ Tools
cp VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz /tmp
cd /tmp
gunzip VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz
tar -xvf VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar
cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

VMWare changed where the VMWare Tools CD are mounted. You can discover it by clicking on the VMware Tools in the left pane (this assumes you log on to Fedora as the student user, and the student user is a sudo-enabled user)

VMWare6.0.4

The instructions for VMWare Tools 6.0.4 forward are listed below. Only the first command changes. You should also note that the VMWare Tools library is the same:

cd /run/media/student/VMware\ Tools
cp VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz /tmp
cd /tmp
gunzip VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz
tar -xvf VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar
cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

The last step requires that you reply to a set of prompts. If you’d like to accept the default at one time, you can use the following command:

sudo ./vmware-install.pl --default

Lastly, you’ll get these instructions form the Perl script that installs the VMWare tools:

The configuration of VMware Tools 9.6.2 build-1688356 for Linux for this 
running kernel completed successfully.
 
You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take 
effect.
 
You can now run VMware Tools by invoking "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd" from the
command line.
 
To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and 
file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and,
3. Restart your X session.
 
Enjoy,
 
--the VMware team

Written by maclochlainn

July 3rd, 2014 at 2:00 am

Posted in Fedora,Linux,VMWare

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