{"id":218,"date":"2014-06-09T04:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2014-06-09T04:24:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:24:26","slug":"requirements-for-installing-vmware-tools-on-linux-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/requirements-for-installing-vmware-tools-on-linux-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirements for installing VMware Tools on Linux guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re running a Linux guest OS with a desktop environment (X-Windows) in ESXi or Workstation, it is beneficial that you install VMware Tools.<\/p>\n<p>A minimal Linux installation with no desktop environment does not enjoy all the benefits of having VMware Tools; simply because there is no X Window System installed. Most of the time, you just SSH into the Linux guest and your client or terminal such as PuTTY, has the features that you need.<\/p>\n<p>However, If you need to, you need the following installed before running <code>vmware-install.pl<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>gcc<br \/>\nmake<br \/>\nlinux-headers-$(uname -r)<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Installation: <a title=\"VMware Tools for Linux Guests \" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/vsphere-50\/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vmtools.install.doc%2FGUID-08BB9465-D40A-4E16-9E15-8C016CC8166F.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware Tools for Linux Guests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re running a Linux guest OS with a desktop environment (X-Windows) in ESXi or Workstation, it is beneficial that you install VMware Tools. A minimal Linux installation with no desktop environment does not enjoy all the benefits of having VMware Tools; simply because there is no X Window System installed. Most of the time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-virtualization","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}