It’s a small but simple task to install VMWare tools on your virtual machine.

I used the VMware vSphere Client to connect iso of the official VMWare client software as a cdrom to the cdrom drive of the running vm.

sudo mkdir /media/CD
sudo mount /dev/hda /media/CD

Copy the tar.gz file to a temp directory

mkdir /tmp
cp /media/CD/VMwareTools-4.0.0-208167.tar.gz /tmp

Extract the archive file

cd /tmp
tar xvzf VMwareTools-4.0.0-208167.tar.gz

Run the installation file

cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

The default parameters where sufficient for me so i could quickly continue I had to compile the tool again because there where no precompiled valid for my system. I neede to have a c ompiler that i had installed earlier

apt-get install gcc

after installation i restarted the vmxnet driver with the command dispayed in the terminal (i included the sudo command)

sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop
sudo rmmod pcnet32
sudo rmmod vmxnet
sudo modprobe vmxnet
sudo /etc/init.d/networking start

After this the client VMWare tools are installed.

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