How to mount VMware-tools cdrom inside a VM

Question

I know this should be easy, but I'm having a hell of a time figuring out where the vmware tools cdrom is (for instance it's not /dev/cdrom) and so I can't figure out how to mount it. I'm on Kali Linux, using VMware player 7. The VM I'm doing this on is Metasploitable 2(ubuntu)

I go to Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools... a little window comes up saying I should press install, then mount the cdrom in the guest vm, decompress the installer and run vmware-install.pl. However, having googled around for some time, I can't figure out where the cdrom is. Most tutorials say to do something akin to this:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Fine. Except there is no /dev/cdrom or indeed anything remotely similar inside /dev. So I get the error:

mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist

There is a ~/cdrom and a /media/cdrom and a /media/cdrom0 but all of these result in the error:

mount: /media/cdrom0 is not a block device

Which I think is due to me attempting to mount something that's not in /dev. Also, creating /dev/cdrom and attempting to mount results in the above error also, with /dev/cdrom in place of the other.

I have checked and made sure that the vmware tools iso is in the virtual cd drive(it's connected to /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso on the host machine. This is done automatically by selecting Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools... ). I am at a loss as to how to continue, and any help would be much appreciated.

Solution

You can Use lsblk to list block devices. It's likely that /dev/sr0 is a read-only-media (rom) device. That should be what you seek.

Comments

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Got the following: bash: lsblk: command not found

[Totem]

Also sudo: lsblk: command not found

[Totem]

However, mounting /dev/sr0 did indeed work! So thanks!