Comments on: Ubuntu 9.10 In VMware – Updated

By: 生活點滴 » ubuntu-9-10-in-vmware

生活點滴 » ubuntu-9-10-in-vmware — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:08:00 +0000

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:55:22 +0000

Worked like a champ. Thank you so much!!! I don’t care about some of the little things, I just wanted the resolution to automatically adjust when resizing and this fixed it.

By: Reiner

Reiner — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:24:39 +0000

Hi, I am an Newbee on Linux.
With VMware ACE Edition 6.05 build-109488 and the tools
VMware for Linux Version 7.2.9, build-109488
I simply selected Install VMware tools from VMware-Menu.
There appeared a CD-Rom icon on Desktop. This I opened with archivmanager and extracted it in a temporary created folder on Desktop.
Then in Terminal I entered:
cd Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib (or similar)
sudo ./vmware-tools-install.pl
then after a few questions (I submitted always Enter, the defaults)
After a while the vware-tools had been installed properly.

This did also work on Ubuntu 8.04, not in 8.10 nor 9.04

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:19:56 +0000

First of all, thanks a lot!
Only module that is not loaded after reboot is vmci. I also realized that now, copy & paste over the clipboard is not working any more. Is that the missing module? What can I do about it?
Cheers, Thomas

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:38:55 +0000

You are awesome!
My VM is Workstation 6.5.0 on XP; Ubuntu 9.10 inside.
And it works.
Thank you!

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:40:10 +0000

Sorry typo:
The command is
sudo dpkg -i –force-depends open-vm-modules-2.6.31-16-generic-pae_2009.07.22-179896-2+2.6.31-16.53_i386.deb

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:38:51 +0000

As I am using the virtual kernel package the install of the modules fails so I had to use dpkg to forve the install.

cd /usr/src
# all one line
sudo dpkg -i open-vm-modules-2.6.31-16-generic-pae_2009.07.22-179896-2+2.6.31-16.53_i386.deb

By: Chris Knight

Chris Knight — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:41:56 +0000

This is excellent! Thanks a million!

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:44:14 +0000

Thanks Craig, I installed open-vm-tools from the PPA you suggested.

Like clanger9, I could not get past the login screen without using Failsafe GNOME; it would try, flash the console for a moment, then go back to the login. However, it works if I disable the “Autofit Guest” option (it can be re-enabled later, and I can still use “Fit Guest Now”). I’m using Ubuntu 9.04 as a host, and Ubuntu 9.10 as a guest.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:11:39 +0000

I tried this but drag-and-drop still does not work. It stopped working when I upgraded to the 2.6.31 kernel.

I noticed that vmblock is not listed as a kernel module but I thought this was required for drag-and-drop?