riddlermarc

I thought it would be a right PITA to install VMWare Tools from the command line, indeed the VMWare forums are very handy with giving you complex install instructions.

The simple fact of it is that you just tell VMWare to install the Tools, then within the core cmd prompy just navigate to the d: drive and issue the “setup” command.. the GUI will still run.

However, if you do still want to silently run the install from the command line WITHOUT the GUI:

msiexec /i d:vmwaretools.msi /qn

Without installing the Tools, you will not have an eth0 (sorry, linux part of the brain..) I mean network card.

A good site for configuration hints:
http://4sysops.com/archives/windows-server-2008-longhorn-getting-started-with-server-core/

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