Install VMware Tools on ubuntu 9.04
This post was written by admin on May 17, 2009
Posted Under: General
Posted Under: General
VMware provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system,include the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters.
Download the VMware software from following link:
VMware Player(free):http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
VMware server(free):http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
VMware workstation:http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/
VMware ESX:http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/esx/
To install VMware tools,first open a terminal window and type following code:
wget http://chrysaor.info/scripts/ubuntu904vmtools.sh
then execute it by command:
sudo bash ./ubuntu904vmtools.sh
It will take a little time to finish running the command above,reboot and then you are done if you are using VMware server or workstation,for more about it,refer to chrysaor.info
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Reader Comments
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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Perfect. Thank you very much for providing this script. It works like a charm!
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Wow! Thanks for making my life easier!
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Thank you! This works perfectly. I would never have been able to figure out all of those packages that needed to be installed before trying to compile the VMTools.
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Thank you so much.
It works perfectly for me too.
Br
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Works perfectly!
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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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Thank you!
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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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thanks for the tutorial. I managed to install the rpm program, but when I try to use the next line of code, this is what I get:
charles@charles-desktop:~$ sudo VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.rpm
sudo: VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.rpm: command not found
I also tried this:
charles@charles-desktop:~$ sudo VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.rpm
sudo: VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.rpm: command not found
neither worked. Is there a folder I need to save the rpm packages into?
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Nevermind, figured it out. I wasn’t specifying the directory. Thankyou!
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Thank you. Its working good
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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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Is there a reason to install Vmware Tools on the Ubuntu SERVER version?
I still cant do “Fit Guest Now”. It is grey out after doing the Vmware tools install and reboot.
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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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Worked great. Thx a heap…..
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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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Hi,
I’ve got two stupid questions:
- would that work on ubuntu server 9.04 64 bits?
- I run ubuntu server with no graphical interface, would that still work?
thanks!
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Wow dude!, thanks a lot, works like a charm!
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Curious guys. How do you ensure you have the vmtools installed properly and they are up to date? I am running ubuntu 904 on a 64bit platform. Was just curious if there was a command to enter for locating the version and/or if it was up to date?
Im running ESXI as my host by the way. After running these scripts… they installed, but my host is saying that my vmtools are out of date. =/
Any help would be thankful
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Works brilliantly
Cheers!!
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Yea, i too have the same problem with ubuntu 904 on a ESX 4, vmtools are out of date.
Any ideas ?
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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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WOW!!!! Again WOW!!!! Are you preparing the one for 9.10? I really hope you are.
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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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What about 9.10?
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Also a request for 9.10
and a thanks for the previous versions
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hi,
i have installed VM player to use Ubuntu as the guest OS on the windows host.. Am unable to find the shared folder in /mnt/hgfs . I followed the steps mentioned in the help doc.. any soluntion?
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