How To Install Vmware Tools on Ubuntu Server Lucid

1. Power on the virtual machine. After the guest operating system has started, prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools. Choose VM > Install VMware Tools. Inside Vmware Workstation, make sure CD/DVD is connected.



Note: If you have a previous installation, delete the previous vmware-distrib directory before installing. The default location of this directory is
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.

2. Login to Ubuntu Server

su

3. Mount the CD Image

mkdir /media/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

4. Copy VmwareTools 

copy VMwareTools-5.0.0-<xxxx>.tar.gz /tmp

5. Unmount the VmwareTools Image

umount /media/cdrom

6. Uncompress the TAR

cd /tmp 
tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-5.0.0-<xxxx>.tar.gz

7. Install Vmware tools, just answer the configuration questions

cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

Congratulations you are finished!
Posted by m@ on 7/21/2010
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1 comments:

m@ said...

To run the VM in Background Mode, you can do this with the "vmrun" command using the "nogui" option:

vmrun -T ws start /export/vmware/rh5/server.vmx nogui

Windows users try swapping the slashes,

vmrun -T ws start C:\export\vmware\rh5\server.vmx nogui

July 22, 2010 4:55 AM

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