Install vmwaretools » History » Version 4
Andreas Kohlbecker, 08/06/2013 05:43 PM
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| 2 | 2 | Andreas Kohlbecker | The vmaretools iso image must be made available to the guest system as cdrom. |
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| 7 | apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) |
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| 9 | 4 | Andreas Kohlbecker | echo "copy this path for later, just in case the vmware-config-tools.pl cand find it:" |
| 10 | echo /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include |
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| 13 | 1 | Andreas Kohlbecker | mount /dev/sr0 /mnt |
| 14 | cp /mnt/VMwareTools-9.0.0-782409.tar.gz /tmp/ |
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| 15 | umount /dev/sr0 |
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| 16 | cd /tmp/ |
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| 17 | tar xzf VMwareTools-9.0.0-782409.tar.gz |
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| 18 | 3 | Andreas Kohlbecker | vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl |
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| 20 | /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status |
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| 23 | if you run into problems where ... can not find the linux headers: |
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| 28 | Turns out, the installer is looking for the version.h file in under [[kernelsource|path]]/include/linux/version.h, it's not there. The location of version.h is [[kernelsource|path]]include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h |
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| 31 | The solution is a symlink: |
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| 34 | sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h |
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| 35 | ~~~ |
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| 36 | After creating this symlink, I was able to run the VMware Tools installer without a problem. |
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| 39 | from http://askubuntu.com/questions/131351/how-to-install-vmware-tools ) |
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