Installing VMware Tools in BT5

[joker5bb]

If you are using VMware Workstation you would want to install VMware Tools.
Choose VM > Install VMware Tools from the VMware Workstation menu to connect a ISO image file that contains the VMware Tools installer

Below are the commands to input in BT

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
cd /tmp
tar zxpf /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

Enter the default paths the installer provides

When prompted:

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel?

Enter

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38/include

[fahad12]

thanks br0 bt i cant install this
i am 'run script bt faild

look /vmware.sh: line 6: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./vmware.sh: line 16: syntax error: unexpected end of file
why ?

[TheTXHC]

Not sure if anybody else is experiencing the same problem, but I've run into the same thing twice now on 2 different systems. The above fails for me at the first command. Every step after that seems to work, except for the last one because obviously the kernel header fails to install on step 1.

When I input

apt-get install linux-headers- 'uname -r'

it produces the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-headers is not installed, so not removed
E: Couldn't find package uname -r

Then, when I get to point in the VMware Tools configuration process that it asks for the path to the kernel headers, the path

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38/include

is not recognized.

Anyone know what the deal is?

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Now, I managed to get around this by entering "no" when it prompted me if I wished to change the path to the kernel headers. It gave me a warning but I just ignored it and kept pressing enter until it got through all the prompts and to the end of the configuration process.

VMware Tools is acting a bit strange, but I am able to use the BackTrack GUI in full-screen mode now, which is the main reason I (and I'm sure everyone else) wanted to install VMware Tools in the first place.

[crackerj]

Make sure you use back quotes (the tick on the tilde key) and not the single quotes.

[DoctorJekyll]

So I tried the above but this still isnt happeningfor me I just get the Headers error after installing lol,
Hope some one fixs this soon or finds a work around

[Smash209]

I'm not sure if this is the correct workarround but it worked for me:

-search for and install the package "linux-headers-2.6.38" in KPackageKit in system menu

-follow the rest of the instructions previously given above

[skiamakhe]

If you guys are getting errors with either the kernel header versions not matching (i.e. version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE does not match version 2.6.38) or complaints about a missing autoconf.h, it's because two files are not in a directory that the installer expects them to be.

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38/include/linux/utsrelease.h &
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38/include/linux/autoconf.h

are both in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38/include/generated/

Issuing these commands from the /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38/include/linux/ directory will fix this:
ln -sf ../generated/autoconf.h .
ln -sf ../generated/utsrelease.h .

Make sure the linux headers are installed first, as explained earlier in this thread.

Found solution here: http://bovitron.com/blogostu/2010/06...rnel-2-6-33-4/

[raftrack5]

Hello everyone
could someone please explain how to install vmware machine or other virtual machine in backtrack 5.
with konsole.

[sickness]

For anyone having issues try the official Wiki guide: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...p/VMware_Tools

[shadowzero]

Hello everyone
could someone please explain how to install vmware machine or other virtual machine in backtrack 5.
with konsole.

You're trying to run VMware inside Backtrack? Try here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware