Installing guest tools

Installation of the guest tools inside a virtual machine includes steps performed by users with different roles: a system administrator and a VM user.

As a system administrator

1. Upload the guest tools ISO files located in the /usr/share/vz-guest-tools/ directory on any compute node to a network share or FTP server:
   • for a Windows guest, upload vz-guest-tools-win.iso
   • for a Linux guest, upload vz-guest-tools-lin.iso
2. Provide access to the uploaded ISO file to a VM user.

As a virtual machine user

Log in to the virtual machine and do the following:

• Inside a Windows VM:

  1. Download the Windows guest tools ISO image provided by your system administrator.
  2. Mount the image inside the VM.
     • On Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 or newer, you can natively mount an ISO image. To do this, right-click the guest tools ISO image and select Mount.
     • On Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, you need a third-party application to mount ISO images.
  3. Go to the mounted optical drive in Explorer and install the guest tools by running setup.exe.
  4. After the installation is complete, restart the VM.

• Inside a Linux VM:

  1. Download the Linux guest tools ISO image provided by your system administrator.

  2. Create a mount point for the optical drive with the guest tools image and run the installer:

     # mkdir /mnt/cdrom
     # mount <path_to_guest_tools_iso> /mnt/cdrom
     # bash /mnt/cdrom/install