Long Term Storage

After 20 minutes of searching the history files, I finally found the posting I was looking for.

It is the instructions on how to complile vmware-tools when they won’t due to kernel updates.

Install the needed packages.
sudo apt-get install build-essential xinetd linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev xorg-dev libgtk2.0-dev (Only need if using X)

Change to /tmp to do the install.
cd /tmp

Browse over to the SourceForge Open VM Tools project page and grab the link to download the latest version.

Which as of 8/6/2008 is http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166.tar.gz

Grab a copy.
wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166.tar.gz

Grab a copy of the vmware tools.

Untar/gzip them.
tar xzvf VMware*.gz
tar xzvf open-vm-tools*.gz

Build some modules.
cd open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166/
./configure && make
cd modules/linux/

Tar them up.
for i in *; do mv ${i} ${i}-only; tar -cf ${i}.tar ${i}-only; done

Copy them over the included modules.
cp -f *.tar /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/

CD into the VMWare tools dir and run the install.
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl