Bonjour,

L’utilisation des VMware Tools permet d’améliorer les performances des machines virtuelles. L’installation sur Debian se révèle un peu plus complexe…

Pour pouvoir installer correctement VMware Tools, certains packages sont nécessaires

On commence par vérifier avec quel version de compilateur C votre noyau a été compiler et la version de votre Linux :

debian:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-30) (ben@decadent.org.uk)
(gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011

Maintenant, on installe les packages nécessaires au bon fonctionnement de VMware Tools :

debian:~# apt-get install autoconf automake binutils make psmisc
debian:~# apt-get install libglib2.0-0
debian:~# apt-get install gcc-4.3 linux-headers-`uname -r` -y

Commencez par monter le fichier ISO en tant que CD-ROM, à l’aide de la console VMware.

Il faut monté le Cdrom sur Debian

 debian:~# mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Suivez ensuite le déroulement ci-dessous :

debian:~# cd /root
debian:~# cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz /root/
debian:~# tar xvfz VMwareTools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz
debian:~/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl
Creating a new VMware Tools installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing VMware Tools.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
[/usr/sbin]

In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program
is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you
want? [yes]

The installation of VMware Tools 8.4.5 build-324285 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want
this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Initializing...

The path "/usr/bin/gcc-4.3" appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [no]

....
....

/etc/init.d/networking start

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

Voila VMware Tools est maintenant installé.

Si vous souhaitez désinstaller VMware Tools voici le fichier ;

debian:~# cd /usr/bin
debian:~/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-uninstall.pl