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Andreas Kohlbecker, 08/06/2013 06:02 PM

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The vmaretools iso image must be made available to the guest system as cdrom.
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apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
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mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
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cp /mnt/VMwareTools-9.0.0-782409.tar.gz /tmp/
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umount /dev/sr0
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cd /tmp/
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tar xzf VMwareTools-9.0.0-782409.tar.gz
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vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl 
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If you run into problems where vmware-config-tools.pl can not find the linux headers see  http://askubuntu.com/questions/131351/how-to-install-vmware-tools )