Thursday, December 16, 2010

Add VMware Tools into CentOS 5.5

Sometimes, adding an existing software can be of pain with less documentation. This is one the scenario I had to face it. Lab manager from VMWare provides easy spinning of virtual servers, to get the template complete you need to get the necessary tools installed before you publish. When I click on install, it actually mounts the ISO to the directory but it does not installs it.

find . | grep VMware
mount (found dev)  localdir
cp VMware....  ~/
tar zxvf VMware.....tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl


You are done. It installs all the Guest Additions before you publish the machine template.

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