Do You Ubuntu?

Being able to install Vmware Tools on an installation of Ubuntu gives you many advantages.

• Network acceleration
• Video acceleration
• Host to guest time sync
• Seamless mouse movement between host and guest
• Cut and paste between host and guest
• Heartbeat

This guide will suppose that you have successfully installed ubuntu as an image on vmware server.  Enter your ubuntu image and in terminal enter the following commands.

First let’s get some pre-requisites:

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install build-essential
• sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname-r`  (note the ` key is located directly above your tab key. )

Once you have installed the above you will need to select “Install vmware tools” from the drop down menu of either your server console, or from your web interface for vmware server.

We’re now going to mount the cd image so we can get to the files.

• sudo mount /cdrom
• cp /cdrom/*.gz /tmp
• cd /tmp
• tar zxvf VM*.gz
• cd vmware
• sudo ./vmware-install.pl

You should now be going through the install wizard.  Select all the default options and once it’s done, you should have a successful installtion of vmware tools.  Enjoy!

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