Installing guest tools

You can install the guest tools inside a virtual machine by using ISO images stored either in the official repository or on a compute node. The latter case includes additional steps performed by a user with the system administrator role.

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 or download vz-guest-tools-win.iso from the official repository.
  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 or download vz-guest-tools-lin.iso from the official repository.

  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