Comments on: VMware Tools Don’t Work in Ubuntu 8.10

By: Sami

Sami — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:26:14 +0000

Try sudo ./dkm add -m open- …

executables are run that way sometimes.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:47:06 +0000

But will this work with Unity? I see you have -disable-unity in the ./configure options. I’d really like to get Ubuntu working with Unity.

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Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:47:24 +0000

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By: Raffi

Raffi — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:29:36 +0000

Hi Harold,
I tried your solution but when I try to run:
sudo dkms add -m open-vm-tools -v 2008.12.23

I get “command not found”.

Any ideas?

thanks,

Raffi

By: Frederik Vos

Frederik Vos — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:42:05 +0000

i don’t know or you already found a solution. I’m using the open-vm-tools like you suggested. (http://www.l4l.be/docs/virt/openvmtools_ubuntu810.php)

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential g++ dkms xorg-dev libgtk2.0-dev libdumbnet-dev libicu-dev

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2008.12.23-137496.tar.gz?modtime=1230042211&big_mirror=0

sudo dkms add -m open-vm-tools -v 2008.12.23
sudo dkms build -m open-vm-tools -v 2008.12.23 -k `uname -r`
sudo dkms install -m open-vm-tools -v 2008.12.23 -k `uname -r`
cd open-vm-tools-2008.12.23-137496
./configure –disable-unity –without-kernel-modules
make
sudo make install

By: Harald

Harald — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:14:50 +0000

I have dropped the use of vmware in favour of virtualbox – performance for WinXP client was sooo unbearable, and virtualbox hums like a bee for me.