Installing VMware Tools on SLES10 Linux on VMWare Fusion

In vmware fusion i installed SLES10 sp2 however when attempting to install the vmware tools there was no RPM install.

On vmware.com there is a link to download an ISO that contains the Linux VMware tools - you can download it from here or direct link to iso

Linux Version | 2008/09/12 | 183 MB
Download .iso file
md5sum: 10ae80986e1532a188f8b93ad878945e

once downloaded, load up fusion and run SLES.
Click on Virtual Machine > CD/DVD > choose disk image
and select the iso file
also, make sure that CD/DVD is Connected


You should now have the following icon on your SLES desktop


double click on VMware Tools
and run the RPM installer




Configure VMware Tools:
Load up a terminal windows in SLES

vmware-config-tools.pl

Respond to the questions the installer displays on the screen. Press Enter to accept the default value.

Restart the VM machine

Thats IT!
vmware tools should now be installed and working!




from vmware.com