VMWare Tools greatly enhance the user experience by improve the graphics and other device driver such and keyboard and mouse inputs. the most noticable effect is faster screen updates and the ability to dynamically size your VMWare console. VMWare tools also allow you to copy and paste up to 64K of plain text between the guest and the host operating system.
To install VMWare tools,
- select the guest virtual machine from the base console and click on the Install VMWare Tools link on the far right. This will insert a virtual DVD into the guest system.
- Run the RPM to install the VMWare tools.
- After installation is complete, run the vmware-config-tools.pl configuration file from the command line.
- Enter the vmware-user command to start the VMWare User process.
- Enter vmware-toolbox & to start the VMware tools control panel.