Ubuntu Server LTS 8.04 VMWare VMTools Howto and Tutorial
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<yourversion> # 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....