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Installing, Configuring and Upgrading ESX Server

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Installing VMware Tools and the Network Driver in a Linux Guest

1. Choose Settings > VMware Tools Install.

This step connects the virtual machine’s CD-ROM drive to an ISO image file on

the ESX Server machine.

2. In your Linux guest, become root, mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM,

copy the installer file from the virtual CD-ROM to /tmp, then unmount the CD-

ROM.

cd /

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

cp /mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz /tmp

umount /dev/cdrom

3. Untar the VMware Tools tar file in /tmp and install it.

cd /tmp

tar zxf vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz

cd vmware-linux-tools

./install.pl

Note: When installing VMware Tools in some versions of Linux, the installer will

need to recompile VMware Tools. For this to work, you will need to have a C

compiler installed in the guest. In some cases you may get compiler warning

messages during the VMware Tools installation. However, the control panel and

drivers will still work correctly.

4. Do one of the following.

• If you configured this virtual machine to use the vlance network driver, go

to step 6.

• If you configured this virtual machine to use the vmxnet network driver, test

to be sure that the vmxnet driver is installed correctly.

insmod vmxnet

5. If the driver is installed correctly, you see some informative output but no error

messages. In addition, you should now have an entry such as

alias eth0 vmxnet in the file /etc/modules.conf (or

/etc/conf.modules in Red Hat Linux 6.2).

6. When installation is complete, choose Settings > Cancel Tools Install to

disconnect the ISO image file and return the virtual machine’s CD-ROM drive to

its original configuration.

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