Monday, December 14, 2009

Configuring VMware Tools

Next thing I did is to install VMware tools on it. Do this via the VMware main menu VM -> Install VMware tools

This will mount a filesystem /media/VMware Tools:



Untar the files via the command : gunzip -c /media/VM*/VM*gz | tar -xvf -


Follow the instructions that appear at the bottom of VMware to install:


Take the default values for all prompts:



Do not install the experimental VMware Filesystem Sync Driver:




Once you have done this, you can start vmware tools - this will allow you to share directories between host and vmware os:


Configure the directories to share via VM -> Settings ->


You can now see the host directories on Linux:

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