How To Set Up VMware Tools On Various Linux Distributions | Linux Today

How To Set Up VMware Tools On Various Linux Distributions

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 2, 2007

“This document explains how to set up the VMware Tools in the
following guest operating systems: Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS
2007 and Debian Etch. Installing VMware Tools in your guest
operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse
synchronization and copy & paste functionality. This article
also shows a way of making VMware Tools start automatically when
you start a guest operating system.

“I used the VMware Tools v1.0.3-44356 provided by VMware Server
v1.03…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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