Install VMWare Tools Ubuntu Server

Install VMWare Tools Ubuntu Server when installing ubuntu server, you need to create a user. After the installation is complete, you need to manually enable root. $ Sudo passwd root www.2cto.com enter your current User Password enter your desired root User Password Confirm Password ubuntu user management root user, that is, the system administrator has all the permissions. A user can only have one GID, but can also belong to important configuration files managed by other additional group users: /etc/passwd Username Password bit UID attribution GID name $ HOME directory Login Shell/etc/shadow username encrypted password change information password policy/etc/group name password bit GID group user /etc/gshadow group password files, not important:/etc/sudoers user name permission definition permission [/pre] You can use the pwconv command to create a shadow password and convert the password in the/etc/passwd file to the/etc/shadow file Note: I have tested this on VM Ware workstation 7.0 and Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10 is also works on Lubuntu and Xubuntu. once you have Ubuntu server installed run the following commands. java code # Change to super user sudo su # Update your sources apt-get update # Upgrade your installed packages and force kernel upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade www.2cto.com ### Now reboot # # reboot # back to super user sudo su # Instal L Build tools apt-get install linux-headers-server build-essential #### Now you are ready to install VMWare tools. ### www.2cto.com # Mount the VMWare Tools cd iso (make sure you have told VMWare you want to install tools) mkdir/mnt/cdrom mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom # Copy VMware Tools cp/mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-xxxxx.tar.gz/tmp # Go tmp cd/tmp # Extract tar-zxf VMwareTools-x.x.x-xxxxx.tar.g Z # Change to extracted directory cd vmware-tools-distrib # Start the installer. /vmware-install.pl-d The default settings have always worked for me (within a vm) so I use the-d option. if you need a different configuration don't use the-d. using Shared folders After a reboot you can use tools such as Shared folders. I like to sym link my shared folders to my home directory as I tend to forget th E mount directory (hgfs) location. www.2cto.com Java code # sym link and name vmSharedFolder ln-s/mnt/hgfs /~ /VmSharedFolder Please note that if you use VMWare work station you can find all this in the help. when I wrote this I was using player, which at the time didn't include this in the help.