The shell script worked beautifully. I had no idea that so many packages would be required before installing VMware tools. Also, given that the script downloaded VMware tools separately, is it a correct assumption that the VMware tools package itself had to be tweaked for it to work under Ubuntu 9.04? Anyway, thank-you!

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Wow! Thanks for making my life easier!

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Thank you so much.
It works perfectly for me too.

Br

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I am running ubuntu 9.04

I ran the script and all seemed to go well until it hit a point that said “where would you like to place the binary files?” I first hit enter to see if it would put in a default. So I tried to put in a path but it just sat there and did nothing. I let it sit for over an hour and nothing. I finally closed the terminal and rebooted to see if it loaded and it is not showing up in system tools. What did I do wrong. I was loading VMware player.

As you can tell I am a newb to ubuntu so am wondering what I missed or am doing wrong.

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admin Reply:
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:07 pm

Hit enter as default.Make sure you have download the right package.
Mine is 64-bit .It should works well,refer here for more

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Hey I seem to be having trouble. I am d/ling the packages right now in the terminal. When I downloaded the player, I chose the .rpm. When my archive manager tries to open it, it says the archive type isn’t supported. Is there anything I am supposed to do?

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admin Reply:
August 7th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

click here,it maybe help

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Nevermind, figured it out. I wasn’t specifying the directory. Thankyou!

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Thank you! It works perfectly for me. I dont have to do anything. Now I can resize any way I want on the screen.

I quickly make another copy of this install and name it virgin. Do that just in case you want to start but dont want to do this again.

Also, if there is another new version of VMware desktop coming out, do I need to do this again?

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You know what? I just update something and now I cant do the “Fit Guest Now” thing anymore. It is grey out.

Why is that?

How do I get it back?

Do I have to run this same process again?

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Thank you! I’m so glad I didn’t have to spend days trying to figure this out by myself. Works perfectly.

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Wow dude!, thanks a lot, works like a charm!

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Works brilliantly

Cheers!!

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After searching an appropiate HowTo for installing the VMWare Tools for hours, litteraly, i finally ended up here. I’m glad it was so easy and i finally got my mouse working properly. Thank you so much.

The only thing left is, that i still did not understand which stops have been pulled. So it works, yet I have no clue why or how.

thanx anyway,
ralf

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im stuck on what im sure is a pretty basic step but i dont know how to specify the directory that contains the init files (rc0.d/ to rc6.d)

im such a noob so if anyone can help i would really appreciate it.

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Also a request for 9.10

and a thanks for the previous versions

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