{"id":220,"date":"2013-05-15T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2013-05-15T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:00:13","slug":"install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail\/","title":{"rendered":"Install vmware tools on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing this on server edition.<br \/>\nFirst do an apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade to bring the entire system current. Then install build tools and kernel headers with the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers`uname -r`\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now click on the Install VMWare Tools option on your Guest. On your VM, run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo mount \/dev\/sr0 \/mnt\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then copy the tools image to the Guest:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\ncp \/mnt\/VMwareTools-8.6.10-913593.tar.gz \/tmp\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You may have a different version of VMwareTools. Now ruun the following commands:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\ncd \/tmp\r\ntar -xzvf VMwareTools-8.6.10-913593.tar.gz\r\ncd vmware-tools-distrib\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now start the install:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo .\/vmware-install.pl\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I chose all the default values. I did not install any options marked [EXPERIMENTAL]. When the installer is searching for valid headers, I received an error that they could not be found in &#8220;&#8221;. So, a little searching and I found that some of the headers moved so:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-headers-$(uname -r)\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-headers-$(uname -r)\/include\/linux\/version.h\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing this on server edition. First do an apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade to bring the entire system current. Then install build tools and kernel headers with the following command: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers`uname -r` Now click on the Install VMWare Tools option on your Guest. On your VM, run the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,124],"tags":[217,125,33,34,126],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-04","category-vmwaretools","tag-13-04","tag-raringringtail","tag-ubuntu-2","tag-vmware-2","tag-vmwaretools-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fcrv-3y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}