{"id":171,"date":"2014-09-28T16:21:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-01-06T23:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T22:55:37","slug":"installing-vmware-tools-on-debian-wheezy-7-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Installing VMware tools on Debian Wheezy 7.x"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>06-01-2018: instead of using the below guide Install Open VM Tools:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2073803\">https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2073803<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Install the tools for building VMware tools on the host:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>$ aptitude update\r\n$ aptitude install gcc make\r\n$ aptitude install build-essential\r\n$ aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r)\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Press the Install vmware tools in vSpehere Client for the VM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copy the VMware tools to the VM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>$ mount \/dev\/cdrom \/mnt\r\n$ cp \/mnt\/VMwareTools-8.6.10-913593.tar.gz \/opt\/\r\n$ cd \/opt\r\n$ tar xfzv VMwareTools-8.6.10-913593.tar.gz\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Install VMware tools:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>$ cd vmware-tools-distrib\/\r\n$ perl vmware-install.pl\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Next follow the installation instructions on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Then reboot the virtual machine and check the VMware Tools is running, by checking the status in the virtual machine with the vSphere client.<\/p>\n<p>you can check locally on the VM that the tool is running by doing the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>$ service vmware-tools status\r\n  vmtoolsd is running\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06-01-2018: instead of using the below guide Install Open VM Tools:\u00a0 https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2073803 Install the tools for building VMware tools on the host: $ aptitude update $ aptitude install gcc make $ aptitude install build-essential $ aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) Press &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/?p=171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,32,4,31],"tags":[46,34,12,33],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian-linux","category-exsi","category-linux","category-vmware","tag-debian","tag-exsi-2","tag-linux-2","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emperial.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}