On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Dick Visser wrote: > On 22/03/2010 21:54, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Dick Visser wrote: > I managed to get things going last week. The trick was to use > --no-install-recommends: > > https://confluence.terena.org/display/~visser/open-vm-tools+in+Ubuntu+Lucid
Awesome, thanks. Here's a quick guide that I tested in VMWare Fusion 2.0.7 and ESXi 3.5i (yes I know neither are the latest but I'm supporting people using them) f Download this daily build: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/ubuntu-server/daily/current/lucid-server-i386.iso In VMWare client or Fusion I created a new VM with OS type Ubuntu Linux and set it to boot from that ISO file, then edited the config: 2 CPUs 1024M RAM 8G hard drive Network type bridged boot from ISO until you get the Ubuntu install screen, then hit ESC twice to exit the GUI, and type: install ks=http://ks.iths.org/dhcp.cfg In about 15 minutes it will be installed, with username mutest and password "2t3st!ng" (see the kickstart cfg file for more details). Then, to build Open VM Tools: In the VM, open a terminal and: sudo su - passwd # set a root password # includes GUI apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` open-vm-dkms open-vm-tools reboot When the machine comes back up you VMWare tools and vmxnet should work! Fusion doesn't seem to support ethtool on vmxnet though. If you don't want the GUI toolbox you can edit the dhcp.cfg file to use "ubuntu-standard" instead of "ubuntu-desktop" and for open-vm-tools use "--no-install-recommends " : apt-get install --no-install-recommends linux-headers-`uname -r` open-vm-dkms open-vm-tools ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
