28-06-2021

Linux Install Free Vmware Tools

Linux Install Free Vmware Tools

VMware Tools is one of important components for virtual machine (VM) in order get excellent performance. It is a group of utilities that help to enhances the overall performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system (OS) and improves management of the VM. Without the VMware Tools, guest OS performance will lacks some of the important functionality. Below steps shows how to install the VMware Tools on RHEL 7, CentOS 7 and Oracle Linux 7.

How to Install VMware Tools ?

VMRC allows you to:- Install VMware Tools on the virtual machines. Install operating systems on the virtual machines using a local CD/DVD ISO image and ISO images from VMware ESXi or VMware vSphere datastore. Passthrough USB devices from your computer to the virtual machines.

Option 1 (Recommended by VMware) – VMware support of open-vm-tools

open-vm-tools is an open source implementation of VMware Tools from third parties and contains utilities that enhances virtualization management, administration and functions of the virtual machine in VMware environments. The ultimate goal is to enable the operating system vendors and/or communities and virtual appliance vendors to bundle VMware Tools into their product releases.

Option 2 :

Linux Install Free Vmware Tools Windows 7

1. Install prerequisites :

2. Attach the vmware tools sofware from vSphere client.

3. Mount the vmware tools package into /mnt :

4. Copy vmware tool packagae into /tmp :

5. Go to /tmp directory and extract the vmware tools package :

6. Go to extracted folder, vmware-tools-distrib :

Install

7. Run vmware-install.pl to start installation :

Example:

8. Once successfully installed, make sure you umount back the /mnt :

Linux How To Install Vmware Tools

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