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Article Number | 000029171 |
Applies To | RSA Product Set: All RSA Products RSA Product/Service Type: Virtual Appliance / Virtual Machine Platform: VMware vCenter, ESX, ESXi Platform (Other): VMware Tools |
Issue | When you create virtual instances of RSA Appliances, the VMware Tools may not install through the vCenter thick client. Use these steps to install the VMware Tools on your appliances. |
Tasks | To complete the installation you will need access to vCenter to copy the VMware Tools files to the virtual machine. You will also need access to the Console of an ssh session to the virtual machine. |
Resolution | Follow these detailed steps to install VMware Tools.
mkdir /mnt/cdrom mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/*.gz /tmp
umount /dev/cdrom
cd /tmp tar zxpf VMwareTools-9.4.0-1280544.tar.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl --default EULA_AGREED=yes
/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh restart
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