How to install VMWare Tools for openSUSE guest OS
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2008
VMWare-Tools in VMWare Virtualization software enhances the mouse and display performances on the guest operating system. When openSUSE linux operating systen runs as a guest os, installing the VMWare Tools isn’t straight forward as it seems. However, it isn’t diffcult.
To install VMWare Tools for openSUSE guest OS, please try the following.
1. Get the guest openSUSE operating system up and running on VMWare.
2. Install the required utilities on the guest openSUSE operating system:
root@opensuse/# yast2 –install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-source make
This installs the GNU C & C++ compilers, kernel Source packages and the make utility
3. From the “VM” menu in VMWare, click “Install VMWare Tools”. This will mount a virtual CDROM media on the guest openSUSE system with a VMWare Tools installation RPM & a Tar/gzip file.
4. Right-click on the RPM and select “Open with Package Installer”, enter the root password and complete the installation.
5. Once installed, run the VMWare-config-tools perl script as follows:
root@opensuse/# /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
Answer the prompts and complete the configuration.
6. Reboot the guest OS (openSUSE)
root@opensuse/# reboot
This should successfully install VMWare Tools for the openSUSE guest operating system.
August 5th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Better to try this
root@opensuse/# yast2 –i gcc gcc-c++ kernel-source make
September 16th, 2010 at 5:29 am
Dear Sirs,
Do I need to install VMWare Tools if I use the console only? I read a bit about this, but I found references only to X application.
Best Regards
September 17th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
If you are installing a production server, may be you increase performance with tools. For testing servers or home-servers without X-server, don´t wate your time.
Jorge
October 14th, 2010 at 6:23 am
I don’t have a GUI, so how do I find the mounted CD-Rom Media ? It’s not under /mnt or /media .
February 9th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Once the install DVD for openSUSE 11.3 is connected, it shows up as /media/openSUSE-DVD-i586-Build0702..001. However, ‘yast2 –install ‘ still askes me to insert ‘openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 (Disc 1)’. Annoying. The url it is trying to mount is cd:///?devices=/dev/sr1, but the disk is actually mounted from /dev/sr0. If you click on “show details”, then it is possible to edit the URL and change the device to /dev/sr0. Then it is possible to install via yast2.
This is for VMWare 7.1.3, which automatically installs vmware tools; however, if you need any other package installed, then you’ll need to follow these steps.
April 3rd, 2011 at 10:45 am
Hi,
Thanks a million. It just worked for me.
-Addy
August 10th, 2011 at 6:52 am
THANKS !!!
This is the magic I needed to get openSUSE 11.4 installed in VMware Fusion with a minor correction.
-install did not work… –install with the yast2 command worked.
I also had a physical DVD ready to go instead of figuring out how to get yastw to find the .iso image on the host machine.
Bill
August 10th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Somehow one of my dashes is missing in the previous.
instead of ^dash^install I used ^dash^^dash^install…
Bill
September 2nd, 2011 at 6:54 am
When using yast2 for 10.4 you have to type yast2 -i –install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-source make
If you get an error saying that you need to insert the CD for yast2 fo install the media, then at the bottom of your virtual machine click the cd icon and mount the iso image to the cd and then click next. It should go from there.
December 18th, 2011 at 3:48 am
Wow, it’s “just” a 500 MB pre-installation before installing VMwareTools.