bankajac Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 I've installed Suse 9.0 in a vmware virtual machine but when I try to install vmware tools nothing happens. They work fine with server 2003 as well as LOnghorn 4053. I know that other people are having the same problem. I am new to Linux and only have messed with it for a short period of time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 VMware Tools for Linux Guests 1. Power on the virtual machine. 2. After the guest operating system has started, prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools. Choose File > Install VMware Tools. The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine. 3. Be sure the guest operating system is running in text mode. You cannot install VMware Tools while X is running. 4. As root (su -), mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image, change to a working directory (for example, /tmp), uncompress the installer, then unmount the CD-ROM image. Note: You do not use an actual CD-ROM to install VMware Tools, nor do you need to download the CD-ROM image or burn a physical CD-ROM of this image file. The VMware Workstation software contains an ISO image that looks like a CD-ROM to your guest operating system. This image contains all the files needed to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. Note: Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the /dev directory differently. If your CD-ROM drive is not /dev/cdrom, modify the following commands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt cd /tmp tar zxf /mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz umount /mnt 5. Run the VMware Tools installer. cd vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl 6. Log out of the root account. exit 7. Start X and your graphical environment. 8. In an X terminal, launch the VMware Tools background application. vmware-toolbox & Note: You may run VMware Tools as root or as a normal user. To shrink virtual disks, you must run VMware Tools as root (su -). -- I took that from http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/new_...t_tools_ws.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bankajac Posted April 5, 2004 Author Share Posted April 5, 2004 When I do the mount command i get: mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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