Instalar VMware tools en GNU/Linux

Hoy traemos un mini-tutorial de como instalar las VMware tools en nuestros recién instalados servidores bajo VMware ESXI

 

Instalamos los paquetes necesarios

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) make gcc

Nos vamos a VM > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools

Nos aparecerá una ventana tal como está , Damos OK

 

 

Creamos una carpeta donde vamos a montar

mkdir /mnt/cdrom/

Montamos el CD-ROM

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: dispositivo de bloques /dev/sr0 está protegido contra escritura; se monta como sólo lectura

Copiamos el instalador al temporal

 cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-9.0.1-913578.tar.gz /tmp/

Accedemos al directorio y descomprimimos

cd /tmp/

tar xvf  VMwareTools-9.0.1-913578.tar.gz

Accedemos a la carpeta

cd vmware-tools-distrib/

Empezamos la instalación (Esto es todo siguiente, siguiente…siguiente)

./vmware-install.pl
Creating a new VMware Tools installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing VMware Tools.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin] y

The path «y» is a relative path. Please enter an absolute path.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
[/usr/sbin]

In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]

The path «/usr/lib/vmware-tools» does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes] y

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]

The path «/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools» does not exist currently. This program
is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you
want? [yes]

The installation of VMware Tools 9.0.1 build-913578 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: «/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl».

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: «/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl». Do you want
this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Initializing…
Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.

Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Guest operating system daemon: done
Unmounting HGFS shares: done
Guest filesystem driver: done

The VMware FileSystem Sync Driver (vmsync) allows external third-party backup
software that is integrated with vSphere to create backups of the virtual
machine. Do you wish to enable this feature? [no]

Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed…

make
gcc
kernel headers of the running kernel

Searching for GCC…
Detected GCC binary at «/usr/bin/gcc».
The path «/usr/bin/gcc» appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [no]

Searching for a valid kernel header path…
The path «» appears to be a valid path to the 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel headers.
Would you like to change it? [no]
WARNING: This program cannot compile any modules for the following reason(s)…

– This program could not find a valid path to the kernel headers of the running
kernel. Please ensure that the header files for the running kernel are
installed on this sytem.

[ Press Enter key to continue ]
The communication service is used in addition to the standard communication
between the guest and the host. The rest of the software provided by VMware
Tools is designed to work independently of this feature.
If you wish to have the VMCI feature, you can install the driver by running
vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make and the
kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine. These
packages are available on your distribution’s installation CD.
[ Press Enter key to continue ]
The VM communication interface socket family is used in conjunction with the VM
communication interface to provide a new communication path among guests and
host. The rest of this software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
independently of this feature. If you wish to have the VSOCK feature you can
install the driver by running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure
that gcc, binutils, make and the kernel sources for your running kernel are
installed on your machine. These packages are available on your distribution’s
installation CD.
[ Press the Enter key to continue.]

The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
–clobber-kernel-modules=vmxnet3 to override.

The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
–clobber-kernel-modules=pvscsi to override.

The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
–clobber-kernel-modules=vmmemctl to override.

The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS
and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish
to enable this feature? [no]
The fast network device driver (vmxnet module) is used only for our fast
networking interface. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is
designed to work independently of this feature.
If you wish to have the fast network driver enabled, you can install the driver
by running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils,
make and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your
machine. These packages are available on your distribution’s installation CD.
[ Press Enter key to continue ]

The vmblock enables dragging or copying files between host and guest in a
Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish to enable this feature?
[no]

!!! [EXPERIMENTAL] !!!
VMware automatic kernel modules enables automatic building and installation of
VMware kernel modules at boot that are not already present. By selecting yes,
you will be enabling this experimental feature. You can always disable this
feature by re-running vmware-config-tools.pl.

Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modules?
[no]

No X install found.

Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
Checking acpi hot plug done
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration: done
Guest operating system daemon: done
The configuration of VMware Tools 9.0.1 build-913578 for Linux for this running
kernel completed successfully.

You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take
effect.

You can now run VMware Tools by invoking «/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd» from the
command line.

To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and
file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and,
3. Restart your X session.

Enjoy,

–the VMware team

Found VMware Tools CDROM mounted at /mnt/cdrom. Ejecting device /dev/sr0 …

 

Si nos vamos ahora a la pestaña Setting ya podemos ver instaladas nuestras tools

 

 

Un saludo, rokitoh!