Install kernel headers and some tools used to install VMware tools apt-get install binutils cpp gcc make psmisc linux-headers-$(uname -r) Mount the cdrom drive. Make sure you have mounted the VMware tools virtual cd from the host before moving on. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/ Extract VMware tools to the tmp directory: tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-3.5.0-67921.tar.gz The filename depends on the host software/OS. Here is a reference to a VMware ESX 3i VMware tools package. Unmount the virtual cd umount /mnt Make sure you run the following command from the Console, don’t try to run it using SSH because the network will be restarted and the installation will fail. cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl Accept the defaults for every question. Make sure you’re located inside the vmware-tools-distrib folder when executing the vmware-install.pl script or the installation will fail. To finish the installation and start the virtual machine with VMware tools installed, reboot the virtual machine: reboot

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for newer linux dist you may need to this additionally : apt-get install make gcc-4.3 linux-headers-`uname -r` libglib2.0-0 apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) install make gcc-4.3 linux-headers-`uname -r` libglib2.0-0 12.07.14

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Download linux headers using the command 1 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) Create a symbolic link to version.h file The vmware tools installer is looking for the version.h file in under [kernelsource path]/include/linux/version.h, it’s not there. The location of version.h is [kernelsource path]include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h 1 sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h 12.07.14

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