Linux Virtual Machine VMware vSphere Installation Tutorial

1 Start vSphere Client

2 Start Virtual Machine [Right-click on VM, select Power —>Open] and view it through the console. Whether the virtual machine starts successfully

3 Right click on the virtual machine and select “Client & mdash;>Install/Upgrade VMware Tools”, this window will pop up

4 Click “OK”, and then pop up at the bottom of VMware vSphere. This message prompts you to “Exit VMWare Tools installer mount”

5 Enter virtual machine Console, open the terminal, load the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image

mount /dev/cdrom /media

[root@Webmail ~]# df -h | Grep media/dev/sr0 60M 60M 0 100% /media[root@Webmail ~]# cd /media/

[root@Webmail media]# lsmanifest.txt VMwareTools-8.6.0-425873.tar. Gz

6 Unzip

[root@Webmail media]# cp VMwareTools-8.6.0-425873.tar.gz /tmp

[root@Webmail media]# cd /tmp/

[root@Webmail tmp]# chmod +x VMwareTools-8.6.0-425873.tar.gz

[root@Webmail tmp]# tar zxf VMwareTools-8.6.0 -425873.tar.gz

[root@Webmail tmp]# ls | Grep -i vmwareVMwareTools-8.6.0-425873.tar.gzvmware-tools-distrib

7 Installation

[root@Webmail tmp]# cd vmware-tools- Distrib/

[root@Webmail vmware-tools-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl [All omitted]

8 Uninstalling CD-ROM image < Br>

[root@Webmail ~]# cd /[root@Webmail /]# umount /media

Do not uninstall in /media directory, otherwise it will report an error:

umount: /media: device is busy.(In some cases useful info about processes that usethe device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))

9 Checking the virtual machine & ldquo;  quo;The VMware Tools tab on the tab verifies the status of VMware Tools

Installation is complete.