1. Log in as root on the guest.
2. In the VMWare server console, from menu choose "VM" --> "Install VMWare Tools".
3. Open a terminal window and type the following:
Note: For Fedora and Redhat w/Gnome installed, usually this is already mounted. So skip the mount command and adjust the third line's mount path accordingly.
(Just right click the CDRom icon and chose properties to see where mounted.)
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom (or) mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
cd /tmp
tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz (or) tar zxf /media/cdrom/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz
umount /mnt/cdrom
4. Run the Installer:
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Note: Before running the configuration program, you need to make sure you have gcc and kernel headers available.
yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-source
5. Run the configuration program.
vmware-config-tools.pl
6. /usr/bin/
vmware-toolbox &
To switch to new network driver:
/etc/init.d/network stop
rmmod pcnet32
rmmod vmxnet
depmod -a
modprobe vmxnet
/etc/init.d/network start
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