Installing VMware Tools in Ubuntu Server

Installing VMware tools in VMware virtual machine is essential thing to run the VMware Machine Smoothly. You can find out more information about why we need to install VMware tools from following VMware KB article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=340

In this post describe how to install VMware Tools In Ubuntu


 

• To run the VMware tools you need the gcc Compiler.to install
  
  
   
  • sudo apt-get install gcc
    
    
     
• Go to VM –Guest – Install/Upgrade VMware tools.
  

 

  


 

• Create a folder to mount the Cd
  
  
   
  • sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
    
    
     
• Mount the Cd
  
  
   
  • sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
    
    
     
• Copy the VMwareTools-<x.x.x-xxxx>.tar.gz to tmp folder
  
  
   
  • sudo cp VMwareTools-<x.x.x-xxxx>.tar.gz /tmp
    
    
     
• Un zip the tar .gz file
  
  
   
  • cd /tmp
    
  • sudo tar –xvzf   VMwareTools-<x.x.x-xxxx>.tar.gz
    
    
     
• Run the setup from the unzipped folder
  
  
   
  • cd / vmware-tools-distrib/
    
  • sudo ./ vmware-install.pl –d
    
• Restart the Machine
  
  • sudo reboot
    
• It will show like this in the status tab after the VMware Tools Correctly Installed.