After setting up my home lab on VMWare ESXi 5 I went on a quest to figure out how to install VMWare tools on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Came across a real simple 10 step guide that made this task quick and easy.
After logging on to the server, follow the below commands:
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get upgrade
- sudo apt-get install build-essential
- sudo mkdir /media/cdrom
- sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
- cp /media/cdrom/VMware*.tar.gz /tmp
- cd /tmp
- tar xzvf VMware*.gz
- cd vmware-tools-distrib/
- sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d
And you’re all done.