Riccardo Riva

This post will show all actions to do for installing VMware Tools on a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu.

First of all you have to instal all packages needed for a correct installation on configuration of VMware Tools (make, gcc, and kernel sources) by running the following commands :

sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

So you have to select from VMware VM menu “Install/Update VMware Tools” for your virtual machine and do the following :

Mount the VMwareTools Virtual Cd-Rom with the following command :

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

Copy the compressed package on your system :

sudo cp /mnt/VMware-xxx.yyy.tar.gz /tmp
sudo umount /dev/cdrom

Access to the directory on which you’ve copied the file and extract it :

cd /tmp
sudo tar -xzvf VMware-xxx.yyy.tar.gz

You should now delete the archive, enter in the new directory and execute the VMware Tools installer :

sudo rm VMware-xxx.yyy.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Follow the on-screen instructions and reboot your virtual machine at the end.

Hope this help

Bye
Riccardo

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