A, VMware Tools Introduction
VMware Tools contains a range of services and modules, enabling a variety of functions in VMware products, enabling users to better manage guest operating systems, and seamless interaction with the client operating system.
VMware Tools Lifecycle Management provides a simple and scalable way for the installation and upgrade of VMware Tools. It contains a number of enhancements and related driver enhancements, and support for new client operating system.
Second, the description of the problem
VMware Workstation "Install VMware Tools" is gray, not clickable installation, click on the installation of the Internet that way will not be used. Screenshot below:
Third, the solution
Although VMware Tools is gray, but VMware downloads bag has a linux.iso, this thing is what we need, follow these steps:
1. Mount image file
VMware opens, click on the virtual machine >> Settings >> CD / DVD, then select "Use ISO image file" in the "Connection" on the right, and then select linux.iso VMware file in the directory, click OK after that is a good choice can.
2. Connect CD-ROM file
After the completion of the previous step, open the virtual machine, there is a "CD / DVD" icon in the lower right corner of the virtual machine, select "Connect" After clicking, the connection is successful you can see a CD-ROM file on the desktop. Screenshot below:
3. Extract the installation
Open the disc file, which has called VMwareTools ... tar.gz archive, this archive to the directory you want unzipped (eg / home / Documents / VMTools), then click on the archive, right click and choose " extract here "extract to the current directory.
After the file open a terminal, go to decompress, then go to the vmware-tools-distrib directory, enter sudo ./vmware-install.pl enter, followed by a carriage return has been re-enter yes.
4. restart the virtual machine
After completion of the above operation, also you need to restart the virtual machine for the job. Here you can test to see if the installation was successful, copy a file in the machine, and then paste it in a virtual machine, if the paste success shows that VMware Tools installation was successful.