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.
root@opensuse/# yast2 –i gcc gcc-c++ kernel-source make
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
Jorge
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.
Thanks a million. It just worked for me.
-Addy
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
instead of ^dash^install I used ^dash^^dash^install…
Bill
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.