Installing VMware Tools in Slackware (14)
So I finally decided to create a slackware VM just to mess around with and maybe use it for slackware-current. I have always used virtualbox since installing vmware tools always failed too install and figured why mess with it when it works in Vbox? Surprisingly the fix was not difficult I just felt lazy that day I guess.
The following is how to install vmware-tools on slackware (14) but should work for previous ones as well.
## This is what caused it to fail since the dir didn't exist. $ mkdir /etc/pam.d $ su - # mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd # cd /mnt/dvd/ # ls ... VMwareTools-x.x.x-xxxxx.tar.gz ... # tar -xzvf VMwareTools-x.x.x-xxxxx.tar.gz -C /tmp # umount /mnt/dvd/ # cd /tmp # cd vmware-tools-distrib/ # ./vmware-install.pl
The install should be successful after that, if you start X-window then you will need to start vmware tools with the following command.
$ /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd
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and how would I do that on W7 or W8???
Do you mean Windows 7 and 8 when you say W7 and W8?
Excellent post!
Thank you very much for this tip. I was having the hardest time getting this to work properly.