All the guides I found on the Internet, including VMWare’s website were outdated in some way, so I decided to write a guide of my own. I just went through these steps from start to finish on a fresh server and had no problems.
- Use Install VMWare Tools option in VMWare Client to attach media
- Update the server
- Create the mount point
- Mount the ISO
You should see the message: mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only - Change Directory
- Copy the tar file to your /tmp directory
- Install Build tools if necessary
- Change Directory
- Unmount the ISO
- Expand the tar1sudo tar xzvf VM*.tar.gz
- Change Directory
- To prevent a potential error in the install script on Ubuntu 11.10, create a special directoryUnable to create symlink “/usr/lib64/libvmcf.so” pointing to file ”/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib64/libvmcf.so/libvmcf.so”.
- Run the Install Script. The -d flag automatically answers the default to all questions. To customize it, just omit the -d.
- Reboot
Let me know if this worked for you!
15. Right click Client Setting-> Video Card and add more memory.
REFERENCES
http://ghosttx.com/2012/03/how-to-install-vmware-tools-v4-on-ubuntu-11-10-server/
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=748
