On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 13:19 +1000, Centos-admin wrote: > Hello all, > Do any of > you know a way to get vmware tools installed when you do not run a > graphical interface (ie runlevel of the box is 3) ? I cant seem to get > it going. Should I download the tools and copy them into the vm ? > No, when your virtual machine is running, take the vmware console and choose in the menu VM/Install VMWare tools . It will swap your cd with a iso images containing the vmware-tools rpms. If you're running in init3 (which is normal for a server) just mount your cd from within a bash session and install the corresponding rpm. If you're running a known kernel from vmware, you'll just have to install the rpm and configure with vmware-tools-config.pl (if i remember well ...) > > Any help much appreciated as I'm not cutting over to use production VMs > until I can fix this. > > > Cheers, > > > Bards. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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