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  • HowTo Install VMware Tools On Ubuntu Guests

    On the account I don’t do the process often, I thought it might be a good idea to document the process of what packages I need to install into Ubuntu Linux Guests so that VMware Tools will compile without error.

    Follow the steps below and you’ll be able to copy the VMware Tools tar/gzip archive to your host, extract it and then run the vmware-install.pl

    Determine the linux kernel version, using uname -a. Make note of the release.

    Then install the following packages; (assuming the kernel version from the uname -a is 2.6.27-7-generic)

    apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.27=7-generic linux-source-2.6.27 gcc make psmisc

  • HowTo Install VMWare Tools On Debian Linux Guests

    This post was inspired by Sonia Hamilton.

    I too always find myself installing a Debian Guest into VMware, in my case it’s usually VMware Fusion. Although the VMware Tools package between all products is the same anyways. Of course each time I install a new Guest I always forget the packages I need to installed to make VMware Tools work without a hitch.

    Eventually I wrote it down. Process below is what I typically use on my Debian Linux Guests.

    Determine the linux kernel version, using uname -a. Make note of the release.

    Then install the following packages; (assuming the kernel version from the uname -a is 2.6.18-4-686)

    apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 linux-source-2.6.18 gcc make psmisc

    Once installed you need to uncompress the kernel source in /usr/src and then symlink a directory /usr/src/linux to kernel source directory, which you uncompressed into /usr/src after the apt-get install above.

    Now grab the VMware Tools tar.gz package, uncompress it and then run the install script. It should detect the kernel headers/kernel source and build everything without error.