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

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:54:55 +0000

I started this as root in /root and got to the step of:

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

My question is do I create this directory? vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/

If not where is it and where is the perl vmware-install.pl?

By: tom

tom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:09:17 +0000

only issue with this is you will have to do this each time a new kernel gets installed -> wonder why ubuntu does not come with a apt package like debian does (open-vm-tools, tools and components for VMware guest system)

By: Pierow

Pierow — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:35:44 +0000

You are a lifesaver. Worked like a champ!

By: VMWare on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) - New HowTo « In Search of Equilibrium

VMWare on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) - New HowTo « In Search of Equilibrium — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:16:43 +0000

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By: firestorm_v1

firestorm_v1 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:58:00 +0000

Unfortunately, this did not work for me. make didn’t proceed as it was trying to compile guestAppPosixX11 despite having used the –without-x option.

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.