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Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu

Matt Jones | July 31, 2006

I’ve had a really hard time trying to find the way to get VMware Tools on Linux virtual machines, but I’ve got it down to just a few steps. If you’re using a ‘big name’ distribution with a graphical interface, it’s not hard to install. But, I like to use Debian or Ubuntu, without X11 (the aforementioned “graphical interface”), so it’s a pain in the butt.

How to install Vmware Tools on Ubuntu without X11:

  1. Install Ubuntu Server
  2. Login
  3. Create a root shell:sudo bash
  4. Update your sources:apt-get update
  5. Upgrade your installed packages (dist-upgrade to force kernel upgrade):apt-get dist-upgrade
  6. Reboot
  7. Create a root shell again:sudo bash
  8. Install packages VMware Tools needs:apt-get install linux-headers-server build-essential
  9. Install VMware tools
  10. Mount the VMware Tools CD ISO:mount /cdrom
  11. Copy VMware Tools to home:cp /cdrom/VmwareTools-x.x.x-xxxxx.tar.gz ~
  12. Go home:cd ~
  13. Untar/Gzip the install:tar -zxf VmwareTools-x.x.x-xxxxx.tar.gz
  14. Go into the resulting directory:cd vmware-tools-distrib
  15. Start the installer:./vmware-install.pl
  16. Install will ask you questions, the defaults should work fine.
  17. Remove the basic AMD PCnet module (if you get errors about building the ethernet driver, run this command and start at step 14 again):rmmod pcnet32
  18. Rebuild module dependancies:depmod -a
  19. Install the VMware accelerated network interface:modprobe vmxnet
  20. Restart network service:/etc/init.d/networking restart
  21. Reboot
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I found your guide here to be awesome compaired to

Chris | June 25, 2007

I found your guide here to be awesome compaired to others, but the very last command was slightly different in mine, had to use this instead. Maybe a typo, great work though.

/etc/init.d/networking restart

Thanks Chris, I made the correction. It might be a

Matt Jones | June 25, 2007

Thanks Chris, I made the correction. It might be a change from Ubuntu 6.06 to the newest, or a typo!

Great article. I'd like to also add, that on some debian

xushi | January 3, 2008

Great article.

I’d like to also add, that on some debian installs, it might not find GCC as you might not have it installed. Just in case, just quickly install it first with apt-get.

Nice guide. Fixed my networking problem I was having with

tupz | May 26, 2008

Nice guide. Fixed my networking problem I was having with VMware Tools. THANKS A LOT!!!!!! Step 17-19 fixed it right up…

Thanks for the steps, one thing I had to do

Greg | September 8, 2008

Thanks for the steps, one thing I had to do was umount /cdrom before the vmware tools could be mounted.

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