The following sections describe how to install VMware Tools:

The installers for VMware Tools for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and NetWare guest operating systems are built into VMware GSX Server as ISO image files. (An ISO image file looks like a CD-ROM to your guest operating system and even appears as a CD-ROM in Windows Explorer. You do not use an actual CD-ROM to install VMware Tools, nor do you need to download the CD-ROM image or burn a physical CD-ROM of this image file.)

When you install VMware Tools, GSX Server temporarily connects the virtual machine's first virtual CD-ROM drive to the ISO image file that contains the VMware Tools installer for your guest operating system, then begins the installation process. (If you decide not to proceed with the installation, cancel the installer, then choose VM > Cancel VMware Tools Install to return your virtual machine's CD-ROM drive to its original configuration.)