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Emulated Debian under VMWare
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Installation VMWare-Tools
1. find out the kernel version:
Debian-Etch#: uname -a As a result you will get something like this (numbers may vary depending on the system):
Linux Debian 2.6.18-4-686 .....
The numbers at the end are needed for point 3.
2. installation of the required packages
apt-get -y install gcc make zip unzip psmisc libglib2.0-0
3. installing the kernel headers and kernel sources
And here we enter the numbers from point 1.
apt-get -y install linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 linux-source-2.6.18
4. mounting and copying the VMWare tools
Mount virtual CD drive, copy and unmount files:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ cd /mnt/cdrom cp /mnt/cdrom/VMWareTools-5.5.3-...tar.gz /usr/src/ umount /mnt/cdrom
5. unpack and install the VMWare tools
cd /usr/src tar xfvz VMWareTools-5.5.3-...tar.gz <-- (zahl je nach Versionsstand) cd vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
When the installation starts, confirm all questions by pressing ENTER.
6. set up the network module (vmxnet)
/etc/init.d/networking stop rmmod pcnet32 rmmod vmxnet depmod -a /etc/init.d/networking start shutdown -r