[SOLVED] Installing VMware Tools

[Mohammadi]

Hi everybody,


My host operation system is Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 6.1.7.601 Service Pack 1 and I have installed Fedora 17 64-bit on VMware Workstation Version 8.0.2 build-591240.

The problem is I have no idea how to install the VMware Tools. Would you explain it to me?

I am a new beginner, in fact this is my first time that I have installed a GNU/Linux distribution. So please explain it a little detailed

[Mohammadi]

Three days has been passed and I've got no replay. What's wrong? Aren't you supposed to support other people?

[marko]

Originally Posted by Mohammadi

Three days has been passed and I've got no replay. What's wrong? Aren't you supposed to support other people?

It's probably because you're not asking in an appropriate forum, you're asking a VmWare question and not a Fedora question. It would be better to ask this in a VmWare forum where more people would know how to install the tools in VmWare. This would be a good place to start:

http://communities.vmware.com/commun...op/workstation

and the download page has some information
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/eva...e-workstation8

[marco765]

in an effort to be marginally helpful despite no experience with vmware workstation in windows...

1. vmware typically keeps its "tools" in disk images that must be mounted in the vm, there should be an easily-found option to do this from one of the main menus in your vm's window, something like "install vmware tools", this should insert the virtual cd into your virtual machine, from which you can get the installer program

2. fedora 17 mounts these disk images in /run/media/yourname/ so go to /run/media/yourname/vmwaresomething and there should be a tar file with the stuff you need to install vmware tools, untar that somewhere

3. the tar file should contain an executable that will install and enable the tools, it might be a perl script like "vmtools-install.pl" or some such, run that, reboot, enjoy

note: the installer will have to compile some things, so you need gcc, if it's a perl script as i suspect then you'll need perl, and you will need kernel-headers and kernel-devel; you can "yum install" all of the above or simply "yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'"

hope i'm close enough to correct about most of this, good luck

[Mohammadi]

Originally Posted by marko

It's probably because you're not asking in an appropriate forum, you're asking a VmWare question and not a Fedora question. It would be better to ask this in a VmWare forum where more people would know how to install the tools in VmWare. This would be a good place to start:

http://communities.vmware.com/commun...op/workstation

and the download page has some information
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/eva...e-workstation8

I don't think my problem was something related to VMWare Tools itself, it was obviously related to the lack of my knowledge about how to install something in Fedora.
Even if it had nothing to do with Fedora, I am still not convinced. You should have told me these things instead of just ignoring me! Otherwise how was I supposed to know these things?
Anyway, thanks for the links, the community one helped me

Originally Posted by marco765

in an effort to be marginally helpful despite no experience with vmware workstation in windows...

1. vmware typically keeps its "tools" in disk images that must be mounted in the vm, there should be an easily-found option to do this from one of the main menus in your vm's window, something like "install vmware tools", this should insert the virtual cd into your virtual machine, from which you can get the installer program

2. fedora 17 mounts these disk images in /run/media/yourname/ so go to /run/media/yourname/vmwaresomething and there should be a tar file with the stuff you need to install vmware tools, untar that somewhere

3. the tar file should contain an executable that will install and enable the tools, it might be a perl script like "vmtools-install.pl" or some such, run that, reboot, enjoy

note: the installer will have to compile some things, so you need gcc, if it's a perl script as i suspect then you'll need perl, and you will need kernel-headers and kernel-devel; you can "yum install" all of the above or simply "yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'"

hope i'm close enough to correct about most of this, good luck

It was close enough, it wasn't exactly what I wanted but it explained the general process and after about two days of reading it led me to the solution.
Thank you