Matt Gibson

You may have some difficulty with Ubuntu Server and VMWare Tools. Here’s how we got it working in the end:

• start vm
• # sudo mount /cdrom
• # cd /cdrom
• # cp *.tgz /tmp
• # cd /tmp
• # apt-get install build-essentials
• # apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
• # tar xzvf vmtools<yourversion.tgz>
• # cd vmtools<yourver>
• # perl vmware-install.pl

That’s it. You might want to modify your console settings so you can get 1024×768 from VMWare Workstation, but it’s not really required if you’re just SSH’ing to it.