Install VMWare tools in debian
1. Install Kernel Heaeders
- Get the Kernel version and remember it with:
uname-r - apt-get install linux-headers-[Kernel Version]
2. Install VMWare Tools
- Choose “install and upgrade VMWTools in VMWare” in your VM menu
- mount /dev/hda /media/cdrom
- cd /media/cdrom/
- cp VMWareTools[whateverversion]tar.gz /tmp/
- cd /tmp
- tar xvzf VMWareTools[whateverversion]tar.gz
- umount /media/cdrom/
- cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
- make a symlink:
ln –s /usr/src/linux-headers-[Kernel Version] /usr/src/linux - apt-get install gcc-4.1
- change using gcc version:
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1 - I had make and killall missing on my installation so can you get it:
apt-get install psmisc make - ./vmware-install.pl
3. Uninstall VMWare Tools
After a failed installation of VMWare Tools I got following message:
A previous installation of VMWare Software has been detected… You may want to re-install VMWare Tools.
The solution was to run the uninstaller first and run the VMWare setup again:
1. ./vmware-uninstall.pl
