I'm running vmware on a windows 7 pro pc. The vmware clock is gaining time rapidly. Searching says I need to put in the pc's cpu info (khz) To do this I need to install vmware tools. I've read several guides but as someone who has never used vmware or linux I haven't got a bleeding clue how to do it. I've clicked on the install tools option and it says " make sure that you are logged in to the guest operating system. Mount the virtual cd in the guest drive, launch a terminal and use tar to uncompress the installer. Then execute vmware-install.pl to install vmware tools." I assume by logged in it means vmware is running (is the guest the linux vmware player?) mount the virtual cd in the guest drive - does that mean select open on the linux iso in the cd drive that you find through the vm tab then options. Launch a terminal? so that's not the vmware you already have running, so what is it? What is tar? As you can gather I don't have a clue and just need to get tools installed. why it can't be an automatic process I don't know. I basically need to know what to type to get it installed. I did burn the iso to a disc and have a .tgz file, but I assume vmware uses that format as I don't recognise it.
well it sounds like you need to power down your linux install or any host for that matter, thats done before you mount the iso as a drive by right clicking on the vr machine. once you power up the virtual machine the iso mapped to the drive will become available and it should be a case of doing the rest, opening a terminal and executing the relivant commands as maybe displayed in the documentation.
You do that fix on the host machine. Try this. Similar to Command Prompt in Windows. Look around in the guest OS menus. Should be named something devious, like Terminal. Just a file format (and a command), some Linux software is distributed as source code and needs to be compiled. "tar -xjvf package_name.tar.bz /usr/src/" should do the trick. But just to be sure read the documentation. Btw, what guest OS to be exact? I found out that Ubuntu 9.10 doesnt need VMWare Tools to get that seamless switching while 9.04 flatly refused to work with it.
Here's a keypress guide to install VMware Tools, for popular versions. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf You'd type these commands at a terminal window, and will probably need to "sudo" before every command. I recently installed VMware tools command line via VMware Player 3 into Ubutun 8.04 LTS so if this is what you're using I may be able to help further. Nah you can't do it in that order with player. You have to launch, then connect, then manually mount it from the /dev/cdrom device.
