1.开机状态 点击虚拟机界面 "虚拟机（M）"----> “开始安装VMware tools” .
2.这时桌面多了一个
3.
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.
Error: Unable to find the binary installation directory (answer BINDIR)
in the installer database file “/etc/vmware-tools/locations”.
Failure
Execution aborted.
解决办法
解决方法：
1. 删除etc/vmware-tools目录
rm -rf /etc/vmware-tools
2. 删除/tmp/vm* 注意不要把 VMwa*的也删除了
rm -rf /tmp/vm*
3.
然后重新执行
# tar zxvf VMwareTools*
# cd vmwaretools*
# 安装‘/./vmware-install.pl
ok
Enjoin
--the .... 时说明成功了
Lunix 安装VMware tools
原文：http://www.cnblogs.com/learn-python-M/p/7294619.html
