Sep 08
Before install vmware-tools these you need for compilation:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` umount /dev/cdrom mount /dev/cdrom cp /cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz /tmp
Then download open-vm-tools from sourceforge : http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/
This module use for build vmxnet, vmhgfs.
wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-114782.tar.gz
cp open-vm-tools-* /tmp
sudo apt-get install libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev libicu-dev
cd /tmp
tar zxf open-vm-tools-*
./configure --without-x
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/
Then goto vmware-tools-distrib
cd vmware-tools-distrib/ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
After that Enter for default value to pass.
When complete maybe restart your Guest OS, before use vmxnet.
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