Installation of VMware tools on a linux machine
All the instructions on installing the tools on Centos. We are on VMware 4.0.
Thanks in advance.
TNT
Hello.
See KB 1018392.
Good luck!
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How to install vmware tools in a virtual machine running in the drive on an Ubuntu host?
I have a host of Ubuntu (Ubuntu LTS 14.04.2)
I have a virtual of Fedora (4.0.4 - 301.fc22.x86_64) and I would like to install vmware tools in the virtual machine.
When I select the player VirtualMachine-> reinstall VMware Tools...
I get a prompt in a box on the screen. It is said:
The following software are available for download:
VMware Tools for Linux version 9.9.3
What do you do?
X Cancel | Download and install
Of course I choose to download and install (kind of silly question - why I want to cancel?)
So instead of download the tools I want to install, it says:
Your permission is required to install an update to VMware.
Please enter the root password to move forward.
Password: __________
not serious. Now, he's looking for what root password? The virtual machine or the host?
I have try the virtual machine and it works-not "incorrect password... try again."
... well Ubuntu is not a root user. So, I try the password for the user with root privileges
"incorrect password... try again."
Then, he does not.
Not very satisfying.
The instructions that I found in my research right you will say to take the step to obtain the Tools package then (well, nothing of the rest of it is important if the tools are not available to me).
Suggestions? Advice?
The required password is for the host.
A workaround of functions is "sudo su -" of ubuntu host, then start vmplayer from the root prompt. You must browse the virtual machine since the user doesn't have a history of openness yet... but then there is no prompt asking for a password when you try to download the tools.
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7 - fusion '3D Acceleration requires an update of the VMware tools in the Virtual Machine'
Hello
I installed the free Fusion 7 trial this week on my iMac and subsequently installed Windows 8.
The resolution of the screen under Windows is very low compared to the Mac OS.
In addition, I have the warning message in the Windows display settings:
'3D acceleration requires an update of the VMware tools in the Virtual Machine'
I also note that the display driver in Windows is the display driver database with Microsoft.
A few weeks ago I installed version 6 of Fusion and it worked very well.
Any ideas?
Thank you
John.
Take a look at the installation and the use of the VMware tools and more spicifically to manually install or upgrade VMware Tools in a Windows Virtual Machine.
If by chance, VMware Fusion is not properly mounting image VMware Tools windows.iso file then you have to do it manually. It is located in "/ Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/isoimages/windows.iso" and will have to be copied, not moved, in a location that is accessible out of the bundle of VMware Fusion.app as the office. If you need to do this, you can right click on the bundle of VMware Fusion.app see the content of the selection box and access its location to copy. To assign the windows.iso on the CD/DVD image, take a look at: Connect and Set Up a CD/DVD Drive
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The purpose of VMware Tools in a Linux guest?
There are benefits to install VMware tools in a Linux without head/command line only VM? The only things I see it adding would share his IP address info. Are there features that I miss out on by installing do not?
Indeed, as the RPM and tar from the instructions in file ends with "Start X Windows", it seems that it is not designed for anything other than the GUI (for mouse tracking/display setting enhancements)?
With VMware tools, you can make things easier. For example, you can do 'clean shutdown' of the machine virtual of ESXi, or synchronize the time between ESXi and VM. I'm not sure but I think that vmware balooning pilot would need tools to work correctly.
But you can still live without vmware-tools and perform all of the above tasks (although not as easily). Personally, I don't use vmware-tools with linux-VM as modular kernel is not permitted in our society.
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The Installation of VMWare tools failed. In any case to force the update/install VMWare tools?
I used to use VMware Workstation 10 and recently upgraded to VMware workstation 11. However, whenever I try to install a newer version of VMware tools, it will fail with message saying something like "VMware Tools can be installed in the Virtual Machine.
Yes, I am trying to install VMware Tools within the guest operating system, but I get this notification for all my virtual machines, I'm running.
I'm under 6 Virtual Machines simultaneously and they run on Windows 7 32 bit OS and configured with 4 GB of RAM, 1CPU, 100GB HD + 5 GB second HD for the swap file, NO printer, no sound card.
For each virtual machine, I changed about 50 + key of Windows registry and detect the values to hide from all the programs that they are running on the virtual machine.
I assume due to records, I changed, it confuses VM installer who it is not running on a Virtual Machine. Then I tried to change all these registers changed to send it back to the original value, yet I is always the same message.
I must be missing either some registry values or values that I restored is false. But I don't know which is the case.
I can simply delete all my Virtual Machines and start again with the new virtual machine, but I don't want to repeat this process whenever a newer version of the VM tools out. and installation of windows and search and replace registry values for each virtual computer is full of works.
So, here is my question. Anyone know how to force the update / install VM tools in my virtual machine?
P.S. I added under scripts in the file .vmx for each of the virtual machines. I don't think it would cause the problem but just in case I include it.
SVGA.vramsize = 268435456
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "" true ".
insulation. Tools.getptrlocation.Disable = 'true '.
insulation. Tools.setptrlocation.Disable = 'true '.
insulation. Tools.setVersion.Disable = 'true '.
insulation. Tools.GetVersion.Disable = 'true '.
monitor_control.disable_directexec = 'true '.
SMBIOS.reflecthost = 'true '.
memtrimrate = '0 '.
mainmem.usenamedfile = "false".
sched.mem.pshare.Enable = "false".
prefvmx.userecommendedlockedmemsize = 'true '.
Tent Installer to get the version information of the hypervisor of underling to see if it is a VM or not. This is done by contacting by back door.
Setting monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"prevents communication."
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Installation of vmware tools windows server 2012
I have to do something special to install vmware tools on a machine virtual windows server 2012, or just run d:\setup?
Thank you.
As long as it is the Fusion of 5 or above, just run the installation program.
If Fusion 4, you may experience problems with the video driver that I don't see if Fusion 4 was never updated to officially support Windows 8 guests. In this case, however, if the only goal is to get something running, be sure to disable the video driver from the VMware Tools installation.
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How to install VMware tools correctly on Linux Mint 15 cinnamon on Fusion 5.0.3
Hello
First of all, I understand that Linux Mint is not supported (side: anyone know if this will change?), so I appreciate any help. My main problem is with the folders shared
Dead ends
So far, I've run into some dead ends:
1. I watched install VMware Tools in Linux Mint 15 cinnamon (Olivia) - YouTube - but this facility has been the "'VMware Workstation 9.0.2 ' and the author admits"I don't know if it works or not with the fusion." "
2 I downloaded a a copy of the latest vmwaretools for linux of deposit of CDS - /www/stage/session-32/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/5.0.3/1040386/packages only to find it was exactly the same as the package vmwaretools this merger gives me at least VMwareTools - 9.2.2 - 893383
Some success
I had some mild success by running the following commands before installing - it seems to stop error messages:
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo apt-get install xinetd
But my MAJOR PROBLEM IS...
When I try to activate the shared folders while the guest is running, I see a message:
Or if I turn on shared folders when the guest does NOT work, I don't get an error message - but I don't see either record hgfs under/MNT
Other research
I read can't see the shared folders in Linux guest (Windows host) and and even tried to run the script vmtoolspatch of WoodyZ of this post - with the following result:
user@GNS3WB62 /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib $ ./vmtoolspatch
patching file driver.c
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] n
Apply anyway? [n] y
Hunk #1 FAILED at 152.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 1978.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 1962 (offset -71 lines).
2 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file driver.c.rej
patching file inode.c
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] n
Apply anyway? [n] y
Hunk #1 succeeded at 62 with fuzz 2 (offset 12 lines).
To install VMware Tools type the following
commands, pressing Enter after each:
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
But after the installation of the VMware shared folders tools has not always worked.
My plea
Someone has successfully shared folder with Linux Mint 15 cinnamon (32 bit - no codecs) invited 5.0.3 fusion and if so could you share the steps that you used?
My system Details
I tried this using VMware Fusion 5.0.3 in both a
MacMini running Lion Server (OS X 10.7.5) 2 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB of DDR3 memory and a
MacBook Pro running 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo 8 GB DDR3 (OS X 10.8.4) Mountain Lion
I have only this tried using Linux Mint 15 cinnamon (32 bit - no codecs)
Well, starting with the basic installation created by using the linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-nocodecs-32bit.iso image under VMware Fusion 5.0.3 I did the following.
sudo apt - get install linux-headers-$(uname-r)
sudo ln-s/usr/src/linux-headers-$ (uname-r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname-r)/include/linux/version.h
Excerpt from vmtoolspatch.zip in my Home Directory.
Excerpt from the VMware Tools VMwareTools - 9.2.2 - 893683.tar.gz to: / tmp
Open a Terminal, by default, the base directory, then:
wkz@linuxmint15x86nc ~ $. / vmtoolspatch
patch the file driver.c
patching file inode.c
To install VMware Tools, type the following command
commands, pressing ENTER after each:
CD/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
sudo./VMware-install.pl
wkz@linuxmint15x86nc ~ $ cd/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
wkz@linuxmint15x86nc/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib $ sudo./vmware-install.pl
Once VMware Tools have been installed, I rebooted and had access to the VMware shared folders.
So it works with the basic install however I do not run apt - get update then apt - get upgrade or use one kernel other then the default. So once the changes then the scrip may not work and I don't have time to test each variable and am just trying to give some automated solution just to make it easier to patch based on what is said in the Notes section in the script. Really don't want to maintain it and others can build on this and or do something similar.
Make sure that the stamp of Date/time on the file vmtoolspatch is Jul 15 00:04:00 2013 as who has worked with this test.
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VMware tools to install Linux is broken in desktop 8.0.4
I'm trying to install vmware tools in a VM Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x 64.
# mount/dev/cdrom/media/cdrom
# cd/tmp
# tar xvfz /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.8.4-743747.tar.gz
# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# perl vmware - install.pl - d
....
Cannot copy the source fichier./installer/services.sh to the destination of the file etc/vmware-tools/services.sh.
The execution is canceled.
Setup of # ls
#
Thus, it seems that this file is missing from the image of tools that comes with workstation 8.0.4 for Windows 7.
Is there any solution for this?
Thus, it seems that this file is missing from the image of tools that comes with workstation 8.0.4 for Windows 7.
Is there any solution for this?
The file is not missing, I'm interested in it right now in archive of gun zipper VMwareTools - 8.8.4 - 743747.tar.gz located in the VMware Tools for VMware Workstation 8.0.4 linux.iso file.
FWIW, I always install VMware Tools on Linux from a root shell (su - (including Ubuntu)) and the cd vmware-tools-distrib directory and start the installation simply with ./vmware-install.pl just like the instructions say to do, and it usually works without problem by providing that the prerequisites are met.
(Click on the image to enlarge).
Post edited by: WoodyZ - posted: July 5, 2012 18:45
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Hi, I've migrated just a Windows XP computer in a virtual machine on merger 4.1.
Works fine, except that when I try to uninstall software that is no longer needed by using the Windows Add/Remove programs of standard tool, all dialogs are in Chinese. This happens for some software to uninstall, but not others.
I guess I blame that on the individual software programs, except that the dialogues were all in Chinese, also when I tried to install VMware Tools.
I guessed the meaning of the different choices during the installation, choose 'Typical', and the tools are installed and I restarted Windows.
Now that dialogue tools boxes are in English, but every time I click the button help in the Tools dialog box, the help files are all in Chinese.
I found a similar problem posted at , where the poster creates an image of Win7 using its installation media rather than through migration of an existing computer. The solution success he had to re - run the installation without using Easy Install. Unfortunately, the migration of VMware tool does not offer me the possibility to use or not using any method of easy installation.
Someone has seen this before, or have any ideas?
Thank you
Have you already checked the language settings in the start menu-> Control Panel - "Regional and Language Options"?
André
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Install vmware tools on the linux host offline
Hello world
I run a Fedora 10 VM using vmware player 3.1.2 on a crowd of Ubuntu 10.04. I'm trying to install vmware tools, but my host doesn't have access to the internet. I've seen a few posts on how to install vmware tools offline on a windows host (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/245195), but the advice given may not be valid for linux hosts. I downloaded vmware-tools-linux - 8.4.4 - 301548.x86_64.component.tar of http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/ but this tar file contains a .component file (not an .iso that post said). My question is what I should do with the .component file to install vmware tools?
Thanks in advance,
-Jordaan
Hi Jordaan,
Welcome to the forums.
Try the following:
-Unzip the downloaded file
"vmware-Installer-install-component = xxx.component.
Good luck.
Concerning
Franck
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VMware tools invited para linux
Pessoal, ate agora EU so was Fords windows e sempre instalei o VMware Tools.
Agora, para comments e Chipre EU instalar o vmware tools linux?
Obrigado
Diego SIM, para linux e Chipre instalar o VMware Tools also.
Segue o meu blog wave postei principle o link para varios sistemas operacionas delivery.
Please atribua os pontos e encerre o topico sua to question faith respondida.
Grato.
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need to get the installation for vmware Tools packages
Hello
With the help of ESX 4. I need to get the installation packages for the vmware tools for each version of Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 (x 86 and x 64) and Windows Server 2003 (x 86 and x 64).
1. where can I get them?
2 support without monitoring/silent install? I need to add them to an existing deployment routine.
Thanks in advance!
All the tools on your ESX host .iso files can be found in
/vmimages/tools-isoimages/
There is a way to push tools, but part of the upgrade tools are NETWORK card drivers and you can lose some pings or experience of ping times raised the expectations of the customers.
An example of a sudden of thumb through AD is http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/how-to-install-vmware-tools-through-windows-group-policy/
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This weekend, I'll upgrade my environment at 3.5 update 4 and, in doing so, I need to upgrade all of the vmware tools install and am looking for a way to do it without connect to each virtual machine. I found some posts that are not too encouraging (upgrade to vShere and via updatemanager or change the settting on the virtual machine to check an update of tools when it boot) I was looking for a script or something that's not going to be too demanding.
Thank you
You can select a group of virtual machines, right-click and choose Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. Make sure the automatic upgrade of the tools is selected, and who should do it.
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Hello
Here are some articles that might be helpful to solve this without having to reinstall the host.
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No automatic installation of VMware Tools after the P2V migration
I wanted to migrate a Windows XP Machine Workstation 8 and everything worked fine.
Then I tried to start an application in this virtual machine and it doesn´t work. I made a second migration before tools VMware and the driver installation has been finished, I started the application and it worked. But after installtion it didn t work more.
I tried to cancel the installation, but that luckily possible.
My question is: How can I force the virtual machine, that it does not install not the drivers and tools automatically? And how do I install only parts of the drivers and tools?
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