Installing VMWare Tools

Debian/Ubuntu

1. Shut down the VM.
2. Add an IDE cdrom drive.
3. Power on the vm.
4. In VI Client, select the VM and choose Install VMWare Tools.
5. Log into VM and run the following commands.

# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-[version].tar.gz /tmp
# tar xfvz /tmp/VMwareTools-[version].tar.gz
# cd /tmp/VMwareTools-[version]/vmware-tools-distrib/
# apt-get update
# apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-`uname -r`
# ./vmware-install.pl

If the installation script asks, the "killall" process is located in /etc/init.d/killprocs.

Accept all the default values in vmware-install.pl.

Finally, reboot your vm:

reboot

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cd /mnt/cdrom
# cp VMwareTools-[version].i386.rpm /tmp
# cd /tmp
# rpm -i VMwareTools-[version].i386.rpm

Finally, reboot your vm:

reboot