Comments on: Installing VMware tools on lenny

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:39:03 +0000

Works for me thank. on ESXi4.1

By: tom dee

tom dee — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:08:46 +0000

as of 2011 this does not work for me. Either the script cannot find the “gcc” program, or the 2nd option by wolf says “unable to locate package”

I continue my quest to install vmware tools. few hours thus far!
(why dont they just make some installer)

By: Wolfsrudel

Wolfsrudel — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:57:15 +0000

There is a better way installing ‘open-vm-tools’:

1. Adding ‘contrib’ and ‘non-free’ to ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’
2. apt-get update
3. apt-get install module-assistant open-vm-source open-vm-tools
4. module-assistant prepare
5. module-assistant build open-vm-source
6. module-assistant install open-vm-source
7. reboot

By: usyxs

usyxs — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:48:25 +0000

Great! Wors fine! THX A LOT!

By: thavaht

thavaht — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:25:23 +0000

Tks! It helped much!