Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies » VMware Workstation http://froebe.net/blog Tips & Tricks for Databases (Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), Windows, Linux, Solaris, Perl, Java, Bash and so much much more Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:12:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Been a long time / Installing vmware tools in Ubuntu 8.04.1 JEOS Server http://froebe.net/blog/2008/09/26/been-a-long-time-installing-vmware-tools-in-ubuntu-8041-jeos-server/ http://froebe.net/blog/2008/09/26/been-a-long-time-installing-vmware-tools-in-ubuntu-8041-jeos-server/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:03:45 +0000 Jason L Froebe http://froebe.net/blog/?p=709 I’m sorry folks, I got wrapped up in the ways of the physical world and then was sick the past few days.

Recently I tried installing vmware tools in a Ubuntu 8.04.1 JEOS Server virtual machine with no success.  After a bit of googling, I came across the Peter Cooper’s blog that outlined the procedure rather well for VMware Fusion, but it works for VMware Server and VMware Workstation just fine.  Essentially:

  • download Open VM Tools from Sourceforge
  • Mount VMware tools (Host -> VM -> Install VMware Tools), mount /dev/cdrom
  • Extract the vmware tools to /tmp
  • Extract and compile Open VM Tools (./configure)
  • Tar up the compiled open vm tools and copy to the vmware tools directory
  • Run vmware-install.pl

See Peter’s blog for step by step instructions.

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