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Procedure

1 From the vSphere Client, right-click the virtual machine, select Power, and select Power On.

2 Select the virtual machine and click the Summary tab.

The VMware Tools label indicates whether VMware Tools is installed and current, installed and not

current, or not installed.

3 Click the Console tab to make sure that the guest operating system starts successfully, and log in if

necessary.

4 Right-click the virtual machine, select Guest, and select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.

5 Select Interactive Tools Upgrade and click OK.

The upgrade process starts by mounting the VMware Tools bundle on the guest operating system.

6 In the virtual machine console, log in as root (su -) and, if necessary, create the /mnt/cdrom directory:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom

7 Mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image.

Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD-ROMs. Verify the state by running the mount

command. If the CD-ROM device is mounted, each of the device's partitions with a recognized file system

appears in the output of the mount command as something like this:

/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)

If the CD-ROM device is listed, it is mounted. If the CD-ROM device is already mounted, do not use the

mount and umount commands.

Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the /dev directory differently. Modify

the following commands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

8 Change to a working directory (for example, /tmp):

cd /tmp

9 If you have a previous installation, delete the previous vmware-tools-distrib directory:

rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib

The default location of this directory is: /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.

10 List the contents of the /mnt/cdrom/ directory, and note the filename of the VMware Tools tar installer:

ls /mnt/cdrom

11 Uncompress the tar installer, where <xxxxxx> is the build or revision number of the ESX/ESXi version.

tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-4.0.0-<xxxxxx>.tar.gz

If you attempt to install a tar installation over an RPM installation, or the reverse, the installer detects the

previous installation and must convert the installer database format before continuing.

12 Unmount the CD-ROM image:

umount /dev/cdrom

13 Run the VMware Tools tar installer:

cd vmware-tools-distrib

./vmware-install.pl

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