Note: If you have an older version of VMware Tools installed, terminate the running version before installing the new one.
Note: If you decide not to proceed with the installation of VMware Tools, you may cancel the operation by selecting Settings > Cancel VMware Tools Install.
You may run the VMware Tools background application as root or as a normal user. The application will have additional capabilities if you run it as root.
Note:
The ./install.pl installation
script included with the VMware Tools for Linux package will not recognize
Linux Mandrake installations. To install VMware Tools for Linux on top of Linux
Mandrake installations, add redhat
as a command line parameter when you run the installation script. For example,
run the following command:
./install.pl redhat
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