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Posted 2007. 9. 13. 13:13, Filed under: Study/Computer Sciencehttp://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/howto/ubuntu-server-6.10-edgy-eft-vmware-tools-install.html
Installing VMware Tools in Ubuntu Server 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
Tested with VMware Tools v.5.5.2 (VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz).
1. Install software needed by VMware Tools
- Install packages to build the kernel modules
apt-get install autoconf automake binutils make cpp gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r)
- Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later)
ls -d /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)*/include
2. Prepare and install VMware Tools
Choose one of a), b), c) or d).
a) If you are running the VM inside VMware Workstation 5.5 Show answer
- From VMware Workstation: go to VM> Install VMware Tools
- From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
- Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz
- Unmount the virtual cd drive
umount /mnt
- Now run the installer
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
- When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".
b) If you have VMware-workstation-5.5.2-29772.tar.gz on disk Show answer
- Make sure VMware-workstation-5.5.2-29772.tar.gz is on disk inside the VM.
- Extract the VMware Tools iso
tar --strip-components=3 -zxvf VMware-workstation-5.5.2-29772.tar.gz \ vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/linux.iso
- Create a temporary mount point
mkdir /mnt/vmtools-temp
- Mount the iso image
mount -o loop linux.iso /mnt/vmtools-temp
- Copy VMware Tools from the mount
cp /mnt/vmtools-temp/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz /tmp/
- Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/vmtools-temp/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz
- Tidy up
umount /mnt/vmtools-temp rmdir /mnt/vmtools-temp rm linux.iso
- Now run the installer
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
- When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".
c) If you have VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz on disk Show answer
- Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
tar -C /tmp -zxvf VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz
- Now run the installer
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
- When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".
d) If you cannot do any of these Show answer
- Download VMware Workstation Trial (free) from
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ - Go to If you have VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz on disk, above.
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