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{{Release Engineering How To|Set Up VMware Tools on a Slave}}
As explained by bhearsum on {{bug|626808}}:

I did this:
* Logged into the VI client
* Right clicked "moz2-linux-slave01" in the VM list and clicked "Install VMware
tools"
* Opened moz2-linux-slave01's console, logged in as root
* Did the following:
 mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
 cd ~root
 tar -zvxf /mnt/cdrom/*.tar.gz (I don't recall the exact filename)
 cd vmware-tools-distrib
 perl vmware-install.pl (might be named differently, don't recall)

It prompted me for a bunch of options, I accepted all the defaults. After that,
I rebooted.

Note that logging into the console session through the VI client is necessary,
because the VMware Tools installer disables the network.