Installation de VMware Tools™¶
VMware Tools™ est une suite d'utilitaires qui améliore les performances et la gestion des machines virtuelles (VM) exécutées sur les plates-formes de virtualisation VMware telles que VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation et VMware Fusion. Les outils VMware facilitent l'interaction entre le système d'exploitation hébergé et l'environnement hôte.
Prérequis¶
- la volonté de gérer des instances de VMware avec VMware Tools™
- pouvoir obtenir les droits d'accès nécessaires avec
sudo - nous disposons de l'installation Rocky Linux minimale
Installation des paquets nécessaires¶
Installation du pilote X11 VMware:
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-vmware
Installation des dépôts kernel-devel et kernel-headers:
sudo dnf install kernel-devel kernel-headers
Installation de perl si nécessaire :
sudo dnf install perl
Redémarrez le système :
sudo shutdown -r now
Monter VMware Tools¶
Monter VMware Tools dans le cadre de l'interface graphique¶
Cliquez avec le bouton droit sur la VM dans le menu de la machine virtuelle, puis sélectionnez Guest > Installer/mettre à niveau VMware Tools™.
VM Tab => Select Install VMware Tools
Mounting VMware Tools CDROM complete.
Montage de VMware Tools™ à partir d'une console¶
Créez un point de montage pour VMware Tools™ et connectez-le :
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /mnt/cdrom: WARNING: source write-protected, mounted read-only.
Vérifiez le montage de /dev/cdrom :
sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 724M 9.3M 715M 2% /run
/dev/mapper/rl-root 37G 3.5G 34G 10% /
/dev/nvme0n1p1 960M 342M 619M 36% /boot
/dev/mapper/rl-home 19G 163M 18G 1% /home
tmpfs 362M 84K 362M 1% /run/user/1001
/dev/sr0 56M 56M 0 100% /mnt/CDROM
[root@localhost ecamalan]# cd /mnt/cdrom/
[root@localhost cdrom]# ls
manifest.txt run_upgrader.sh VMwareTools-10.3.23-16594550.tar.gz vmware-tools-upgrader-32 vmware-tools-upgrader-64
Installation de VMware Tools™¶
Copiez le fichier gzip des outils VMware dans le répertoire local /tmp à l'aide de cette commande :
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-10.3.23-16594550.tar.gz /tmp/
Extrayez le fichier tar.gz dans un nouveau répertoire appelé /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib :
[root@localhost cdrom]# cd /tmp/
[root@localhost tmp]# tar -zxvf VMwareTools-10.3.23-16594550.tar.gz vmware-tools-distrib/
vmware-tools-distrib/
vmware-tools-distrib/bin/
vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vm-support
vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/XMLSchema.xsd
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/saml-schema-assertion-2.0.xsd
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/catalog.xml
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/XMLSchema.dtd
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/xml.xsd
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/xenc-schema.xsd
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/datatypes.dtd
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/XMLSchema-instance.xsd
vmware-tools-distrib/vgauth/schemas/XMLSchema-hasFacetAndProperty.xsd
vmware-tools-distrib/caf/
... (some packages not shown)
vmware-tools-distrib/lib/plugins64/common/
vmware-tools-distrib/lib/plugins64/common/libvix.so
vmware-tools-distrib/lib/plugins64/common/libhgfsServer.so
vmware-tools-distrib/doc/
vmware-tools-distrib/doc/INSTALL
vmware-tools-distrib/doc/open_source_licenses.txt
vmware-tools-distrib/doc/README
vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
Avertissement
Before you start, you need to check whether the `/etc/init.d` directory exists or not.
If not you may see the following error:
>What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
Solution:
```bash
sudo su
[root@localhost etc]# clear
[root@localhost etc]# cd /etc/
[root@localhost etc]# mkdir init.d
[root@localhost etc]# cd init.d
[root@localhost etc]# for i in {0,1,2,3,4,5,6}
> do
> mkdir rc$i.d
> done
[root@localhost etc]# cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
[root@localhost vmware-tools-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl
```
Avertissement
Be careful changing the default init script directory which should be `/etc/init.d/`.
>What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
>[/etc] /etc/init.d
>INPUT: [/etc/init.d]
>The path "/etc/init.d" is a directory which does not contain a rc0.d directory.
>What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
>**[/etc] /etc/init.d/**
>INPUT: [/etc/init.d/]
>What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
>[/etc/init.d]
>INPUT: [/etc/init.d] default
Pour exécuter le script PERL, accédez au répertoire vmware-tools-distrib et exécutez vmware-install.pl :
sudo cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.
The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).
Keeping the tar4 installer database format.
You have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will
first uninstall the currently installed version. Do you wish to continue?
(yes/no) [yes]
INPUT: [yes] default
Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools™.
Can't exec "/etc/vmware-caf/pme/install/preupgrade.sh": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl line 4421.
The removal of VMware Tools 10.3.23 build-16594550 for Linux completed
successfully.
Installing VMware Tools™.
In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]
INPUT: [/usr/bin] default
What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc]
INPUT: [/etc] default
What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/init.d]
INPUT: [/etc/init.d] default
In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
[/usr/sbin]
INPUT: [/usr/sbin] default
In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]
INPUT: [/usr/lib/vmware-tools] default
The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]
INPUT: [yes] default
In which directory do you want to install the common agent library files?
[/usr/lib]
INPUT: [/usr/lib] default
In which directory do you want to install the common agent transient files?
[/var/lib]
INPUT: [/var/lib] default
In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]
INPUT: [/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools] default
The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program
is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you
want? [yes]
INPUT: [yes] default
The installation of VMware Tools 10.3.23 build-16594550 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".
Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want
this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]
INPUT: [yes] default
Initializing...
Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.
Failed to stop vmware-tools.service: Unit vmware-tools.service not loaded.
Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Guest operating system daemon: done
VMware User Agent (vmware-user): done
Unmounting HGFS shares: done
Guest filesystem driver: done
sh: line 1: : command not found
The installation status of vmsync could not be determined.
Skippinginstallation.
The installation status of vmci could not be determined. Skippinginstallation.
The installation status of vsock could not be determined. Skippinginstallation.
The installation status of vmxnet3 could not be determined.
Skippinginstallation.
The installation status of pvscsi could not be determined.
Skippinginstallation.
The installation status of vmmemctl could not be determined.
Skippinginstallation.
The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS
and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish
to enable this feature? [yes]
INPUT: [yes] default
The vmxnet driver is no longer supported on kernels 3.3 and greater. Please
upgrade to a newer virtual NIC. (e.g., vmxnet3 or e1000e)
The vmblock enables dragging or copying files between host and guest in a
Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish to enable this feature?
[yes]
INPUT: [yes] default
Skipping configuring automatic kernel modules as no drivers were installed by
this installer.
Do you want to enable Guest Authentication (vgauth)? Enabling vgauth is needed
if you want to enable Common Agent (caf). [yes]
INPUT: [yes] default
Do you want to enable Common Agent (caf)? [no]
INPUT: [no] default
Detected X server version 1.20.11
Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used.
Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.
Skipping rebuilding initrd boot image for kernel as no drivers to be included
in boot image were installed by this installer.
Generating the key and certificate files.
Successfully generated the key and certificate files.
Failed to start vmware-tools.service: Unit vmware-tools.service not found.
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Execution aborted.
Warning no default label for /tmp/vmware-block-restore-5339.0/tmp_file
Enjoy,
--the VMware team
Si vous utilisez l'interface graphique, vous devez redémarrer le système :
sudo shutdown -r now
Vérifiez votre installation VMware¶
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
Checking acpi hot plug done
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration: done
Guest filesystem driver: done
Mounting HGFS shares: done
Blocking file system: done
Guest operating system daemon: done
VGAuthService:
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
vmtoolsd is running
Conclusion¶
Nous avons commencé par une installation minimale de Rocky Linux, ce qui a entraîné de nombreux problèmes et bugs. Malgré cela, nous avons pu rendre VMware Tools™ opérationnel, malgré quelques problèmes.
Author: Emre Çamalan
Contributors: Steven Spencer, Ganna Zhyrnova