نصب VMware Tools v4 بر روی لینوکس ابونتو

نصب VMware Tools v4 بر روی لینوکس ابونتو

All the guides I found on the Internet, including VMWare’s website were outdated in some way, so I decided to write a guide of my own. I just went through these steps from start to finish on a fresh server and had no problems. In about 5 minutes, you will be able to install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Server.

1. Use Install VMWare Tools option in VMWare Client to attach media
    
2. Update the server
   1 2	sudo apt–get –y update sudo apt–get –y upgrade

3. Create the mount point
   
   1	sudo mkdir –p /media/cdrom

4. Mount the ISO
   1	sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

   You should see the message: mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

5. Change Directory
   1	cd /media/cdrom

6. Copy the tar file to your /tmp directory
   1	sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp

7. Install Build tools if necessary
   1	sudo apt–get –y install linux–headers–server build–essential

8. Change Directory
   1

   cd /tmp

9. Unmount the ISO
   
   1	sudo umount /media/cdrom

10. Expand the tar
    
    1	sudo tar xzvf VM*.tar.gz

11. Change Directory
    1	cd vmware–tools–distrib

12. To prevent a potential error in the install script on Ubuntu 11.10+, create a special directory
    Unable to create symlink “/usr/lib64/libvmcf.so” pointing to file “/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib64/libvmcf.so/libvmcf.so”.
    1	sudo mkdir –p /usr/lib64

13. Run the Install Script. The -d flag automatically answers the default to all questions. To customize it, just omit the -d.
    1	sudo ./vmware–install.pl –d

14. Reboot
    1	sudo reboot

Let me know if this worked for you!