Record the VMware installation process of VMware Tools and some problems encountered

This article takes CentOS For example, installation

Why install VMware Tools ?

• Easy to do Windows Better manage virtual machines
• Easy to set up Windows and CentOS Shared folders between

VMware Tools Installation steps

• 1 Get into CentOS

• 2 Click on VMware menu bar virtual machine -> install VMware Tools(install VMware Tools)
  

• 3 CentOS There will be one vm Installation package , Click open. There is a xx.tar.gz, Copy it to /opt File directory

• 4 Use the decompression command to decompress through the terminal tar file
  open opt Directory and extract the files

cd /opt/
tar -zxvf xx.tar.gz

• 5 Open the decompression directory through the terminal command , And install

cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

• 6 All use the default settings
  For the options that appear during installation , Just press enter to confirm

Problems encountered during installation

problem 1 install VMware Tools The option is gray and cannot be selected
Solution ：
1 Shut down the virtual machine , Right click to select settings
2 Hardware -> CD/DVD(IDE) -> Use ISO Image file , choice VMmare Install under directory linux.so file
3 Restart the virtual machine

problem 2 When copying and decompressing files Permission Denied
Solution ：root The user commands the terminal to operate

• Click the CD Icon to enter VM Tools In the folder , Right click to open the terminal

• Enter the command su, Then enter the password
  

• Enter the following instructions to copy the file

cp VMwareTools-xx.xx.x-xxx.tar.gz /opt

Similarly, extract the file