topic No VMwareTools for Debian 6 in Operating System - VMware

No VMwareTools for Debian 6

Jannarong Poopirom — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:12:22 GMT

I tried to install Debian 6 (squeeze) in vSphere 4.1 but int the Guest Operating System dialog there's no Debian 6 (64-bit). So, I cannot install VMwareTools in usual way.

Where can I get the VMwareTools or when will
vSphere support this new OS ?

Thanks

Re: No VMwareTools for Debian 6

Matt Palmer_2 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:29:42 GMT

Hi, you will need to do some apt-gets in the guest first....

apt-get install make
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install libc-dev

uname -a and find out what your kernel version is then apt-get install the relevant kernel headers as follows...

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686

mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
cp VMwareTools-4.0.0-xxxxx.tar.gz /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src
tar zxvf VMwareTools-4.0.0-xxxxx.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

regards

Matt

Re: No VMwareTools for Debian 6

Modris Bremze — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:07:04 GMT

You should be able to install the tools manually after you install the necessary packages for compilation as the previous post mentioned.
A small optimization could be done for kernel header installation:
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)