For FreeBSD virtual machine, you can use the command-line tool to manually install or upgrade VMware Tools.
Prerequisites
- Open the virtual machine.
- Confirm the guest operating system is running.
- Because the VMware Tools installer is written in Perl, verify that Perl is installed in the guest operating system.
process
- On the host, from the Workstation Pro menu bar, select .
If you have an earlier version of VMware Tools installed, the menu item is
updated VMware Tools
.
- In the virtual machine, log in as root to the client operating system and open a terminal window.
- If the release does not automatically load CD-ROM, mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image.
For example, type
mount /cdrom
.
- Go to the working directory, such as / tmp .
cd /tmp
- Unzip Tools VMware .tar.gz file.
takes zxpf /cdrom/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
- If you do not use auto-load release version, uninstall VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image.
- Run the installer and configure VMware Tools.
cd vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
Typically, after the installer file finishes running, the line vmware-config-tools.pl profile.
- If appropriate for your configuration, follow the prompts to accept the default value.
- Follow the instructions at the end of the script.
According to the function used, these instructions can include restarting the X session, restarting the network connection, log in again and start the VMware User process. Alternatively, you can reboot the guest operating system to accomplish all of these tasks.
result
Next Steps
If the virtual machine is available with a new virtual hardware version, please upgrade the virtual hardware.