How to install vmware tools?

Question

I installed my Ubuntu in vmware, no I need install vmware tools, I got error:

Searching for a valid kernel header path... The path "" is not valid. Would you like to change it?[yes]

In CentOS, I run the following command to resolve this issue:

yum install gcc-c++
yum install kernel-devel
yum install kernel-headers
yum -y update kernel

But I don't know how to do in Ubuntu. Please help.

Update I have tried the following command but nothing changed,still got error:

Searching for a valid kernel header path... The path "" is not valid. Would you like to change it?[yes]

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo-get install build-essential linux-header-$(uname -r)
• sudo ./vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
• sudo ./vmware-config-tools.pl
• sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Issue Changed:

Run sudo ./vmware-uninstall-tools.pl, and delete the folder of /etc/vmware-tools then, run sudo ./vmware-install.pl Now I can successfully install vmware-tool.After restart, I can see folder of /mnt/hgfs, but can't see my shared folder.

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

& then install VM-WARE-TOOLS

Go to vmware "VM" tab to install vmware tools

Plz Keep it in mind when you update Ubuntu ( & the kernel version is changed ) u need to run

vmware-config-tools.pl

every time only when kernel is changed

Answer 2

I've just done this on a VMware hosted Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (32-bit) machine and found I needed to do

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic-pae

As well as having the normal build-essential package installed.

Your mileage will vary in terms of the exact linux-headers package to install I guess. But that worked fine for me.

Answer 3

Specify /lib/modules/3.2.0-24-virtual/build/include as the path after you installed kernel headers via One Zero's answer.

Answer 4

1) Use Install VMWare Tools option in VMWare Client to attach media

2) Update the server

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

3) Create the mount point

sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom

4) Mount the ISO

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

5) Change Directory

cd /media/cdrom

6) Copy the tar file to your /tmp directory

sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp

7) Install Build tools if necessary

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server build-essential
(for desktop is "sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential")

8) Change Directory

cd /tmp

9) Unmount the ISO

sudo umount /media/cdrom

10) Expand the tar

sudo tar xzvf VM*.tar.gz

11) Change Directory

cd vmware-tools-distrib

12) Create a special directory

sudo mkdir /usr/lib64

13) Run the Install Script

sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d

14) Reboot

sudo reboot

source

Answer 5

Try

sudo apt-cache search *package-name*

and your package name Ex:

sudo apt-cache search kernel

and you will be produced with all the available packages in the repository , find out the one you want and

sudo apt-get install *package-name*

it . Before doing it update your repository with

sudo apt-get update

Answer 6

I encountered this problem when upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04. No matter what I did, the VMware Tools installer couldn't seem to find the headers. For the record, here's how I installed the headers:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Turns out, the installer is looking for the version.h file in under [kernelsource path]/include/linux/version.h, it's not there. The location of version.h is [kernelsource path]include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h

The solution is a symlink:

sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h

After creating this symlink, I was able to run the VMware Tools installer without a problem.

Answer 7

install the .bundle as usual

download this file PATCH

Extract it in the home directory and delete the old patch flag:

sudo rm /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/.patched

Then run the patch as usual:

sudo ./patch-modules_3.2.0.sh vmware3.2.0.patch

Hope that helps. If it doesnt work try keepin the two patch files and the .bundle setup in home directory.

PS: I found this on the forums of VMWare and it fixed the installation issue for me.