Can't reinstall VMware tools in BackTrack 4 final

[visioneye]

Hello everyone,
My cousin told me to install the VMware tools in BackTrack 4 final and I did as he said. Now suddenly he went to States and I was pissed off by BT4. So I removed it. After uninstalling it completely when i am trying to install it again I am not able to do it. He will be here within a week, so I want to reinstall VMware tools in BackTrack 4 final as soon as possible.!! Please help me by providing some useful solutions.

[Addison_12]

To install the vmware-tools in VMware Server, something much simpler: it launches the virtual machine (I have only tested with Windows) and the VMware menu> VM> Install vmware-tools. VMware will then automatically mount a virtual cd-rom and install the tools by itself. Hope that this method would be useful for you.!!

[GANGSTA]

First you should understand the concepts of VMWare. So that you can do anything with it. I am interested in posting some information about it. VMware creates a closed environment in which are available one, two or four processor of devices and BIOS virtual. According to the designers, the microprocessor is emulated when necessary, that is to say when the VM ( virtual machine ) running in kernel mode or real mode, but not for user mode (user mode) or virtual 8086 mode . According to the designers, it enables VMware to be faster than multi-platform solutions that emulate everything.

[Gonzo]

You can Install VMware Tools in following manner :

1. Trigger installation CD from the VMware console.
2. Create a directory and then mount the CD in Linux.
   
   sudo mkdir / mnt / cdrom
   sudo mount-t iso9660 / dev / cdrom / mnt / cdrom
3. Copy the installation file compressed.
   
   cp / mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-3.5.0-82663.tar.gz / tmp
4. Then Decompress.
   
   cd / tmptar zxf VMwareTools-3.5.0-82663.tar.gz
5. Move to the folder of the installation of VMware Tools
   
   cd *- vm say *
6. Start the installation
   
   sudo. / vmware-install.pl

This will certainly help you.!!

[napoleon]

I would like to tell you that before Installing VMware Tools, you will have to Set up the environment to compile the Linux kernel which can be done as :

1. Update the package management tool
   aptitude upgrade an aptitude updatesudo
2. Install the package kernel modification
   sudo aptitude install build-essential
3. Install the description of the kernel
   sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname-r`

[Solomon]

When a VM is running in a mode that requires an emulation, VMware dynamically translates the code into an equivalent code privileged user mode, places it in a place free from memory, making it invisible and inaccessible to the original code and executes instead. When a virtual machine uses a device, VMware intercepts the request and translates it to be managed by the host system. Although virtual machines run in user mode, VMware needs to install multiple device drivers in the privileged kernel of the host system, which include interchangent tables GDT and IDT whenever hands over to a VM.

[jesse]

• VMware Converter is a migration tool that transforms the content of a physical server to a existing virtual machine VMware (P2V P hysical to V irtual). After an image of contents of the disks of the physical server, Converter analyzes them, and it made changes in order to get these discs in a virtual machine.
• VMware Server is an application very similar to GSX Server. It will replace GSX term. It lets you create and use multiple virtual machines. This version is available for free. The advantage of this version is the remote console. We can thus take control of all virtual machines from a remote machine, which is not possible with VMware Player.