Comments on: Installing vmware tools in a Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake guest

By: antony

antony — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:43:53 +0000

@bruno : Sorry I don’t have any pointers for you. All I can tell you is I’ve upgraded to vmware workstation 6 with a ubuntu 7.10 guest and the tools seem to install with no problems (needing no additional patches).

By: bruno

bruno — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:45:14 +0000

Using the patch provided at http://asargent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/patch.txt however can’t be applied on the vmware-config-tools.pl script provided with VMWare tools 3.0.1. Anybody suggestions?

By: antony

antony — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:23:09 +0000

Sounds like the link original vmware-tools-any-update link may now be dead - you might try this one:

http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz

By: KKK

KKK — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:36:08 +0000

i can’t download this file “vmware-tools-any-update1.tar.gz”

By: Ravindran

Ravindran — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:24:13 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It’s working like a charm.

By: L@uR3nT

L@uR3nT — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:33:09 +0000

thx a lot man… this really works for my ubuntu 6.06 LTS version…

and the vmware update tools has been moved to :
vmware-tools-any-update2.tar.gz

By: YMind » Ubuntu dapper su vmware

YMind » Ubuntu dapper su vmware — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:23:50 +0000

[...] Ci sono diverse soluzioni a questo problema. La piÃ¹ diffusa Ã¨ quella basata su una versione ‘modificata’ dei vmware tools ed Ã¨ descritta accuratamente su asargent.com (Antony’s Blog) nonchÃ¨ riportata su diversi post di vmware technology network come questo e questo. [...]

By: Dorian

Dorian — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:21:57 +0000

Absolutely great, thank you for your tips, those were the only ones that really worked for me.

By: Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:55:41 +0000

the last step crashed my x server (Lastly, you can edit your config to use the vmware mouse:

perl -p -i.bak -e ’s/\”mouse\”/\”vmmouse\”/’ /etc/X11/xorg.conf)

i skipped that and it seems to work ok with my mouse

the vmware tools any update 1 tar has been moved to : http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/obsolete/

there is a update2 tar in http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/

By: joe ubuntu user

joe ubuntu user — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:34:40 +0000

Thanks Anthony. You explained it clearly for many.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:10:51 +0000

Thanks for putting this up. Life is much better now that I have more real estate. I wanted to also let you know that I found this to work on a Fedora Core 5 install as well, that was having the same issue.

By: dapper-user

dapper-user — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:27:31 +0000

I just wanted to says thanks for providing this guide. I’ve been struggling with getting Vmware Tools installed for a few weeks now and every other guide that i’ve used left me scratching my head. Yours has me running tools without a problem.

My only suggestion would be to put in the restart X commands that are needed to get the tools to work (if it is actually needed). I just used:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
-then-
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

By: antony

antony — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:35:41 +0000

I updated the link to point to a copy I happened to have saved.

By: 5280mike

5280mike — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:18:36 +0000

Thanks for laying this out nicely for us–very timely. Can you please update the link on step 2 or provide the details the link is no longer valid. I need to get past the /tmp/patch.txt step.