Then by clicking back into the virtual machine screen the
virtual machine becomes active again.
*Note: You do not use a physical CD when installing VMware Tools. The VMware
Workstation software contains an ISO image that the guest machine interprets
as a physical CD.
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To install VMware Tools, follow these steps:
1. Return to the host machine by holding down the Ctrl key and press
the Alt key. Then from the VMware Workstation menu click VM then
Install VMware Tools
2. The VMware Tools installation screen appears. Click Install VMware
Tools.
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3. Click your mouse back inside the virtual machine to make your keystrokes
active within Red Hat Linux and type the following commands:
*Note: Remember that all of Linux is case sensitive.
mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom
cd/tmp
rpm-Uhv/mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-5.0.0-13124.i386.rpm
umount/dev/cdrom
*Note: For the above line ???rpm??“Uhv/mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-5.0.0-
xxxxx.i386.rpm??? the ???xxxxx??? indicates the current version of VMware
Tools you are using. In this case it is 13124.
4. The next command will initiate the actual installation of VMware tools:
./VMware-config-tools.pl.
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5. Accept any default answers to any questions by pressing the Enter
key.
6. The installation of VMware Tools is now complete.
7. Type in the following command to Start X:
startx
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