HOWTO Install VMWare Tools in Backtrack 4

Hi,
Finally I was able to install VMWare Tools

Here's what you do.

To install VMware Tools in a Linux guest
1. On the host, select VM > Install VMware Tools.
If an earlier version of VMware Tools is installed, the menu item is Update VMware Tools. If the current version is installed, the menu item is Reinstall VMware Tools.

2 On the guest, log in as root.

3 If your Linux distribution does not automatically mount CD-ROMs, mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image.

a. If necessary, create the /mnt/cdrom directory:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom

b Mount the CD-ROM drive.
for backtrack 4 -> do ls and see if its cdrom3. For me it was cdrom3.

mount /dev/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom


4 Change to a working directory (for example, /tmp):

cd /tmp

5 If a previous installation exists, delete the previous vmware-tools-distrib directory.
The location of this directory depends on where you placed it during the previous installation. Often it is placed in /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.


6 Uncompress the installer:

do tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/V and tab it will automatically show you the actual file.

exact command is
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-<x.x.x>-<yyyy>.tar.gz
The value <x.x.x> is the product version number and <yyyy> is the build number of the product release.

7 If necessary, unmount the CD-ROM image.
If your Linux distribution automatically mounted the CD-ROM, you do not need to unmount the image.
umount /dev/cdrom

8 Run the VMware Tools installer.
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

Just Press Enter to accept the default value. Dont worry about what is being asked for now :)
The configuration file, vmware-config-tools.pl, runs after the installer file finishes running.


And you are done!! :)

Cheers!!