Install VMware Tools
The following steps will install VMware Tools on Ubuntu 13.10. NOTE: I've done this after installing Nagios Core so all the pre-requisites like perl are already installed. - Establish an SSH session to the guest
- Initiate the VMware Tools installer from VMware Workstation / vSphere Client
- Type sudo -i and press Enter
- Type mkdir /mnt/cdrom and press Enter
- Type mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and press Enter
- Type cd /tmp and press Enter
- Type tar xzf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools*.tar.gz and press Enter
- Type umount /dev/cdrom and press Enter
- End the VMware Tools installer from VMware Workstation / vSphere Client
- Type cd vmware-tools-distrib and press Enter
- Type ./vmware-install.pl and press Enter
- You'll be prompted for many options, press Enter to accept the defaults
- When it has completed, you should notice in VMware Workstation / vSphere Client that VMware Tools is now running for this guest
- Type reboot and press Enter
- Wait for the guest to reboot
- After
the guest has rebooted, you should notice in VMware Workstation /
vSphere Client that VMware Tools is now running for this guest
This completes the VMware Tools installation. |