How to install and upgrade VMware Tools in Fedora

  
                

VMware Tools is a virtual machine auxiliary tool. Usually VMware comes with it. Linux installation of VMware Tools is not difficult, but different Linux system installation methods are different. Xiaobian wants to introduce VMware Tools under Fedora system. installation.

Fedora kernel and software used is newer than centos, centos less stability, but for personal early adopters toss is good.

Fedora is installed in vmware. When installing vmware tools, I also encountered some problems.

Installation steps:

yum install gcc

yum install kernel-devel

Check if the version of the kernel file matches, if it does not match, you need to upgrade < Br>

uname -r # running kernel

rpm -q kernel-devel #install kernel headers

If the above 2 items do not match, you need to upgrade the kernel file. After the upgrade, , restart the system

Upgrade method:

yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel

After rebooting, enter the decompression path of vmware tools and execute

. /vmware-install.pl

The installation is successful all the way back.

The above is the introduction of Fedora's method of installing VMware Tools. This article also introduces the upgrade method of VMware Tools. Friends who don't know about VMware Tools may wish to learn.

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