Host OS - Windows 7
Guest OS (VM) - Ubuntu 14.10.
When you follow easy installation for ubuntu, you may get server connection timeout when it tries to install VMWare tools for you.
I believe this is due the same bug mentioned in this thread. I tried the resolution here, it worked for other distributions but not for 'VMWare tools for linux' (strange !).
What VMPlayer does is that it creates a ISO image (CD mountable) with relavant distribution libraries and mount it as a CG image to ubuntu. So that you are able to extract content of the CD and install it. These libraries are located here.
We need to manually download these libraries and install it. As the windows host machine this task is relatively easy.
Guest OS (VM) - Ubuntu 14.10.
When you follow easy installation for ubuntu, you may get server connection timeout when it tries to install VMWare tools for you.
I believe this is due the same bug mentioned in this thread. I tried the resolution here, it worked for other distributions but not for 'VMWare tools for linux' (strange !).
What VMPlayer does is that it creates a ISO image (CD mountable) with relavant distribution libraries and mount it as a CG image to ubuntu. So that you are able to extract content of the CD and install it. These libraries are located here.
We need to manually download these libraries and install it. As the windows host machine this task is relatively easy.
- Download relevant library (based on your Guest OS configuration) from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player/6.0.1/1379776/windows/packages/
- Make sure VMWare player is shutdown.
- Extract the downloaded file and you will get a .EXE file and just install it.
- Now restart your ubuntu VM you will see the mounted CD image on your desktop.
- Now extract it content and run 'sudo vmware-install.pl'
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