I used Microsoft Virtual PC, Sun VirtualBox, and VMware Desktop to play with Linux distro in virtual environment. Later on, I got rid of Microsoft VirtualPC due to its imperfection dealing with ubuntu, and am only using Sun VirutalBox at home and VMWare at work. Today, my co-work showed me how he installed VBoxAdditions in Virtual Box to improve the guest Linux OS screen resolution. I could not help thinking I should do the same in VMWare WorkStation by installing VMWare Tools .
But when I followed the install instruction to run “vmware-install.pl” in my guest Ubuntu virtual machine, I got “vmware-install.pl command not found” message. It took me a while to figure out the reason, and it was just a simple Super User permission issue but I thought it was because of PERL installation on ubuntu.
To save you all valuable time in the similar situation, I am sharing here with the detail steps to install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Linux Guest OS in VMWare WorkStation (version is 5.5.9).
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