在此次解决解决无法安装VMWARE Tools的问题的例子中，笔者采用的环境如下：

主机：win xp sp2 虚拟平台：VMWARE 4.5.2 在其上安装RedHat9.0。

无法安装VMWARE Tools的问题现象：能够进入图形界面，但是总是提示没有安装VMWARE Tools。具体如下：

A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 3).

Keeping the tar3 installer database format.

Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.

Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:

Guest operating system daemon: [ 确定 ]

The removal of VMware Tools 4.5.2 build-8848 for Linux completed successfully.

Thank you for having tried this software.

Installing the 未命名 1content of the package.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?

[/usr/bin]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?

[/etc/rc.d]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?

[/etc/rc.d/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?

[/usr/sbin]

In which directory do you want to install the library files?

[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is goingto create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?

[yes]

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?

[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program isgoing to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?

[yes]

Unmounting the Tools ISO image mnt/cdrom .

The installation of VMware Tools 4.5.2 build-8848 for Linux completed

successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any

time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by

invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want

this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

This configuration program is to be executed out of an XFree86 session. Please

shut down all instances of XFree86.

Execution aborted.

无法安装VMWARE Tools的问题原因：没有配置该工具。vmware-config-tools.pl需要根据你的显示器分辨率进行配置，然后才能加强鼠标功能。

解决：需要进行如下操作：

#init 3（保证在超级用户模式下，进入文字界面）

然后输入

login：root

password：

#cd /usr/bin

#vmware-config-tools.pl

然后根据提示设置，完成后reboot一下，这个无法安装VMWARE Tools的问题就可以解决了。

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