VMware Tools must be installed for every VDS virtual server setup to ensure proper operation, prevent time issues, and improve performance. Doing this on Windows is simple — just right-click the virtual server, go to the Guest tab, select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools, which mounts a CD on the virtual server, then run the setup and click Next to complete the installation.
On Linux systems, you need to mount the CD-ROM, save the tar.gz file to the server, and then install it. First, right-click the virtual server, go to the Guest tab, and select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. Then run the following commands on the server:
mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/
cd /mnt
cp VMwareTools-9.0.0-782409.tar.gz /root/
cd
umount -l /mnt/
tar zxf VMwareTools-9.0.0-782409.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
perl vmware-install.pl -dSince VMware Tools is configured against the server’s kernel, if a kernel update is performed on a server, VMware Tools will stop working. In this case, running the last command above again will be sufficient to reinstall VMware Tools.
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