I was looking at this howto and its a little out of date but I was informed so someone who had recently installed vmware tools on lenny and this is the way that was pointed out to me . seems a long way around but can I have so feedback please on the points below THE LONG WAY AROUND 1 check ur gcc version ( seems open-vm-tools and vm tools like 4.1) # gcc --version ## if ur gcc version > 4.1, do the fllowing setps # aptitude install gcc-4.1 # ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc 2 check ur kernel build number # uname -r 3 install the depand packages include linux-headers .... the depand packages list: build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) psmisc binutils make libgtk2.0-dev libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev xorg-dev libicu-dev u can copy this command aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) psmisc binutils make libgtk2.0-dev libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev xorg-dev libicu-dev download and install following deb-packages http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/uriparser/liburiparser1_0.7.2-0exp1_i386.deb http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/uriparser/liburiparser-dev_0.7.2-0exp1_i386.deb copy them to a tmp directory and install it with the command ' dpkg -i filename' 4 unpack the vmtools to ur tmp directory click the vmware menu-select the install vmware-tools. cp it to /tmp # cd /tmp # tar xzfv vmware-tools-xxxxx 5 download the open-vm-tools http://downloads.sourceforge.net/op...130226.tar.gz?modtime=1227030450&big_mirror=0 copy it to a tmp directory and compile # tar xzvf name.gz # cd open-vm-tools/ # ./configure && make 6 if u passed all with no errors # cd open-vm-tools-2008.11.18-130226/modules/linux/ # for i in *; do sudo mv ${i} ${i}-only; sudo tar -cf ${i}.tar ${i}-only; done *7 cp .tar to vmware-tools-distirb replace the same name file # mv -f open-vm-tools-2008.11.18-130226/modules/linux*/*.tar vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/ 8 install ur vmware-tools # cd /tmp/vmware-tools/distirb/ # ./vmware-tools.pl THE ABOVE IS A VERY LONG WAY AROUND the simple way is here 1. Install software needed by VMware Tools Install packages to build the kernel modules aptitude install autoconf automake binutils cpp gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r) make psmisc Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later) ls -d /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)*/include From VMware Workstation: go to VM> Install VMware Tools From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/ tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools*gz Unmount the virtual cd drive umount /mntNow run the installer cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl QUESTION after finishing it says to use the vmxnet driver restart networking useing the following commands /etc/networking stop rmmod pcnet32 rmmod vmxnet modprobe vmxnet /etc/init.d/networking start what is the advantage of doing this? wiseman
