Fixed: Problems Installing VMWare Tools in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Server as Guest in VMWare Server
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under IT in General
I tried to install Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Server edition as a guest system in my VMWare Server and got into a problem installing the vmware tools. I mostly follow the instructions given here with some changes with regards to the lack of GUI (X11).
Install the Basic Build Tools
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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
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sudo apt-get install libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev
Download Open VM tools and Copy the VMWare Tools
- Click on Install VMWare Tools
- Force mount the tools virtual CDROM by running
mount /dev/cdrom
- Make a folder in home directory and run as root using
sudo -s
- Assuming you created the folder ‘~/vmtools’
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cd ~/vmtools
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cp /cdrom/VMwareTools-1.0.5-80187.tar.gz .
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wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/\ open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-87182.tar.gz
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tar -xzvf open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-87182.tar.gz
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tar -xzvf VMwareTools-1.0.5-80187.tar.gz
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cd open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-87182/
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./configure --without-x && make
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cd modules/linux
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for i in *; do mv ${i} ${i}-only; tar -cf ${i}.tar ${i}-only; done
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cd ../../..
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mv -f open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-87182/modules/linux/*.tar vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/
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cd vmware-tools-distrib/
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./vmware-install.pl(If you didn’t run as root, you need to add sudo in front of the command)
Restart
Issue the command
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Tags: 8.04, hardy heron, Linux, ubuntu
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