If you’re like me that test pretty much any os and apps in some sort of virtual environment. In my case I use VMware Workstation, so when I decided to test Backtrack 4 final, I needed to install the vmware Tools, and here I go over the commands needed to install the vmware tools.
1- First go to VM->Install Vmware Tools (the figure shows as Reinstall VMware Tools because I had previously installed it) but yours should say “Install”
2-Go to your Backtrack VM, and drop to a shell, and follow these commands or copy and paste as you wish.
root@bt:~# root@bt:~# ls /dev | grep cdrom cdrom3 root@bt:~# root@bt:~# ls /media cdrom cdrom0 floppy floppy0 root@bt:~# root@bt:~# mount /dev/cdrom3 /media/cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only root@bt:~# root@bt:~# cd /media/cdrom root@bt:/media/cdrom# root@bt:/media/cdrom# ls VMwareTools-8.1.4-227600.tar.gz manifest.txt root@bt:/media/cdrom# root@bt:/media/cdrom# cp ./VMwareTools-8.1.4-227600.tar.gz /root root@bt:/media/cdrom# cd /root root@bt:~# root@bt:~# tar -xzf ./VMwareTools-8.1.4-227600.tar.gz root@bt:~# root@bt:~# ls VMwareTools-8.1.4-227600.tar.gz vmware-tools-distrib root@bt:~# root@bt:~# cd ./vmware-tools-distrib/ root@bt:~/vmware-tools-distrib# root@bt:~/vmware-tools-distrib# ls FILES bin etc lib INSTALL doc installer vmware-install.pl root@bt:~/vmware-tools-distrib# root@bt:~/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl |