Comments on: Ubuntu Hardy: Setting up VMWare-tools from the CLI

By: mcdermott

mcdermott — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:00:01 +0000

This didn’t fix my problems, looks similar but did work for me.

By: adumont

adumont — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:19:46 +0000

Thanks, it worked very well!

By: Ralf

Ralf — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:21:08 +0000

Thank you very much!

This worked for me on Debian Etch with 2.6.26 kernel. I had to download the latest open-vm-tools though but it worked!!

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:36:47 +0000

So… the instructions worked beautifully and all’s well… except, I just noticed that lsmod on my Guest OS shows:

:~$ sudo lsmod | grep net
vmxnet 19456 0
pcnet32 35460 0
mii 6400 1 pcnet32

so… I followed the rmmod/depmod routine to leave only vmxnet in place, but when I reboot pcnet32 comes right back up…

any suggestions on avoiding that?

By: Aryo

Aryo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:13:24 +0000

Thanks, this document works great for me.
I’m using Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibon.
And I’m using updated open-vm-tools-2008.08.08-109361 than this document does.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:16:11 +0000

Great work and article. Worked great and sorted out my compilation issues.

By: SunnySeattle

SunnySeattle — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:01:51 +0000

This was incredibly helpful to me. Thanks for taking the time to document this.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:26:34 +0000

I have found 100’s of Google entries for “patching” VMTools to work with Hardy-Heron. This must represent 1,000s of hours of work documenting the fixes. (btw, each one is slightly different!)

This may be a silly noob question but would it not be easier if someone would just make an APT package out of fix?

By: jibeddari

jibeddari — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:19:16 +0000

Please join forces with me and try to get a hardy backport of open-vm-tools

This would solve having to maintain these tools manually, which is a pain .. when you have more than a few VMs on ESX.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/252663

By: dave

dave — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:49:15 +0000

for Ubuntu Hardy - start to finish in one c&p for the lazy
#--vmware tools-- ##-SELECT "VM-> install vmware-tools" from vmware server console-## cd /root mount /media/cdrom cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz /root/ wget http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166.tar.gz tar -xzvf open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166.tar.gz tar -xzvf VMwareTools-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz apt-get update apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` apt-get install libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev libicu-dev apt-get install libx11-dev


cd /root/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166

make

cd modules/linux

for i in *; do mv ${i} ${i}-only; tar -cf ${i}.tar ${i}-only; done

cd ../../../

mv -f open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux/*.tar vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/

cd vmware-tools-distrib/

./vmware-install.pl

#####–make sure you type “no” at “It looks like you are trying to run this program in a remote session.” if you are sshing… it reconnects pretty quickly and you normally won’t loose your ssh connection unless something goes horribly wrong.. so maybe this isn’t a good idea. ah well works for me.