Build guest vmware kernel modules: Difference between revisions
Build guest vmware kernel modules (view source)
Revision as of 21:23, 5 December 2014
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After you are done you can remove the vmware-tool-distrib folder as it is only needed before the install. | After you are done you can remove the vmware-tool-distrib folder as it is only needed before the install. | ||
After installing VMware Tools you now have the possibility to run | |||
vmware-config-tools.pl | |||
to configure how vmware tools is supposed to work. | |||
Please note that on linux kernels 3.3 and higher, the original vmxnet module is no longer recommended. | |||
You are advised to use a newer virtual NIC such as vmxnet3 or e1000e. | |||
====Preconditions for the script to work==== | ====Preconditions for the script to work==== | ||