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installing vmware tools

Asked by chanwoman

I am a newbie and have recently installed ubuntu with optional easyubuntu, I have the vmware tools as well as vmware-tools-distrib sitting on my desktop. In the terminal in my root directory, when I ls, I can see the desktop, but I am unable to cd to the desktop or the vmware-tools-distrib to run the install.pl. I have been strugging for 3 days and not getting anyway, can anyone help.

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Danny Staple (danny-orionrobots) said : 		#1

All directories in linux are Case Sensitive. So if the directory shows as Desktop and you try to cd to "desktop" it will fail. On my machines (at least) it is Desktop with an uppercase D.

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chanwoman (ichan) said : 		#2

Thanks for that, I figured that out after I posted the cry for help. I have other problems, the last bit of the install for vmware was to stop and start networking

/etc/init.d/networking stop
rmmod pcnet32
rmmod vmxnet
depmod -a
modprobe vmxnet
/etc/init.d/networking start

the problem is after I have stopped the network, I got an error

ERROR: Module pcnet32 does not exist in /proc/modules

and now I can't get web or email access from my ubuntu sitting in the vm, I did not change anything during the vmware tools install, what have I done wrong :-(.

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Danny Staple (danny-orionrobots) said : 		#3

I note there is an rmmod pcnet32. I am not sure why that is there, and if that has killed the driver for your network card. A quick google shows that pcnet32 is a driver for an ethernet device.

Try doing "modprobe pcnet32" then /etc/init.d/networking stop and /etc/init.d/networking start.

Vmware tools (AFAIK) is actually a set of utilities and drivers for running inside a VMWare guest OS. So it may have been trying to switch out native hardware drivers in preference for pure vmware ones.

If you are intending this to be the host OS, then I am not sure you want to run tools at all, and you probably want to run VMWare player.

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chanwoman (ichan) said : 		#4

Thanks Danny, I am running ubuntu in a vmware workstation for testing before I install it in a separate computer for my daughter who is used to using a PC, just want to make sure everything works first before I make the bold final move, don't want her to have a meltdown after all.

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Ubuntu User (anotherubuntuuser) said : 		#5

chanwoman -

It looks like your request has been answered, please consider closing your request's status to answered.

Thanks

Jim Jones

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chanwoman (ichan) said : 		#6

Problem is solved, it gives me a great confident boost in using Ubuntu knowing that there are always someone there to lend a hand.