Ubuntu 64-bit Full install on VMware-fusion on Mac-OSX Leopard

Follow the instructions given at this location Briefly:

1) Obtain a 64bit Ubuntu iso file from the ubuntu site. Make sure you get the 64 bit Desktop version for "64bit AMD and Intel computers". The iso image is called ubuntu-8.04.1.amd64.iso ( or whatever the latest version of ubuntu is at that moment). The x86-64 platform for 64 bit computing is called AMD64 or Intel -64 , and it will work on all x86 -64 cpus

2) Install the iso from the VMware fusion site

3) Install build essentials like gcc gfortran etc  sudo apt-get install build-essential

4) Now to get things like copy and paste from hopst-leopard OS to guest-Vmware-ubuntu OS to play well, you need to install VMware tools. As noted here , the menu item Virtual Machine-Install VMware tools does not work so follow these instructions:

• sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev
• sudo apt-get install libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev xorg-dev
•  Download from SourceForge OpenVMtools 
•  Untar  tar -zxvf open-vm-tools-2008.08.08-109361.tar.gz
• Run ./configure in the open-vm-tools directory that came into being after the untar

If the configure informs you of missing packages . Please install them . For eg"configure: error: uriparser library not found or is too old. Please configure without Unity (using --disable-unity) or install the liburiparser devel package."

         In my case I installed the OpenVMtools with the --disable-unity and the  --without-icu options

./configure --disable-unity --without-icu

make 

• Now you need to copy the files built above from the modules/linux directory into the VmwareTools distribution which you will obtain below. As given here run the following script 

• for i in *; do mv ${i} ${i}-only; tar -cf ${i}.tar ${i}-only; done cd ../../..

• (XX) As mentioned in these instructions you need to copy the built files into the vmware-tools-distrib source directory later in this install ( step * below)
•  Now you need to get the linux VMware tools provided in the VMWARE disk or installation files into the running virtual OS . As mentioned at this link , the iso for these tools is contained in the install files . On a mac go the iso image is in the  "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages". So in the Virtual Machine- Settings - CD DVD section pick the path to the iso linux.iso . Now as far as the VMware installer is concerned the iso image is mounted as a virtual CD/DVD . This should work after a few tries without complaining that the guest OS has locked the drive. If this does not work email youself the VMwareTools-7.9.3-128865.tar.gz archive and use it inside the running virtual OS
• Assuming you got the =virtual CD/DVD is mounted , from the Virtuall Machine menu pick Install VM-ware tools
• This will now read the virtual CD/DVD ( mounted from /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages/linux.iso") and extract the VMwareTools-7.9.3-128865.tar.gz .
• (*) Click on the automatic extract of the archive and this then created the directory vmware-tools-distrib in the location you specify. This directory has a source subdirectory where you need to copy the tar files from step (XX)

• hari@hari-virbuntuhazel:~/Desktop$ mv -f open-vm-tools-2008.11.18-130226/modules/linux/*.tar /home/hari/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source

• Change into the extracted vmware-tools-distrib folder .Run the perl script installer  sudo./vmware-install.pl
• Accept all defaults , and the tools get successfully installed
• You should now be able to copy and paste between host OS ( leopard) and guest OS ( ubuntu 8.08 or 8.10 ) freely

Here is a screendump of the vmware tools installation process

hari@hari-virbuntu:~/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl 
[sudo] password for hari: 
A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).

Keeping the tar4 installer database format.

Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.

Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Guest operating system daemon:                                      done

File /etc/X11/xorg.conf is backed up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old.1.

The removal of VMware Tools 7.6.3 build-94249 for Linux completed successfully.
Thank you for having tried this software.

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] 

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

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 7.6.3 build-94249 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] 


Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Guest operating system daemon:                                      done
Trying to find a suitable vmmemctl module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your 
running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmemctl module 
for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? 
[yes] 

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/build/include] 

Extracting the sources of the vmmemctl module.

Building the vmmemctl module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only/backdoorGcc64.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only/os.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only/vmballoon.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only/vmmemctl.mod.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only/vmmemctl.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC      /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only/vmmemctl.mod.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only/vmmemctl.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic'
make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only'
make[1]: `postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only'
cp -f vmmemctl.ko ./../vmmemctl.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmemctl-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.

Extracting the sources of the vmhgfs module.

Building the vmhgfs module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/backdoor.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/backdoorGcc64.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/bdhandler.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/cpNameLinux.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/cpNameLite.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/dentry.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/dir.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/file.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/hgfsBd.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/hgfsEscape.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/hgfsUtil.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/inode.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/kernelStubsLinux.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/link.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/messageBackdoor.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/message.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/module.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/page.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/request.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/rpcout.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/stubs.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/super.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.mod.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC      /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.mod.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic'
make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only'
make[1]: `postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only'
cp -f vmhgfs.ko ./../vmhgfs.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.

Extracting the sources of the vmblock module.

Building the vmblock module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/block.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/control.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/dbllnklst.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/dentry.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/file.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/filesystem.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/inode.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/module.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/stubs.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/linux/super.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/vmblock.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC      /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/vmblock.mod.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only/vmblock.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic'
make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only'
make[1]: `postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only'
cp -f vmblock.ko ./../vmblock.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.

[EXPERIMENTAL] The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) service 
provides a new communication capability with the Host, primarily for 
development at the moment.  Would you like to enable this feature? [no] 



Detected X.org version 
X.Org X Server 1.5.2
Release Date: 10 October 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-16-server x86_64 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux hari-virbuntu 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 
20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64
Build Date: 24 October 2008  09:06:49AM
xorg-server 2:1.5.2-2ubuntu3 (buildd@crested.buildd) 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
.



No drivers for X.org version: 
X.Org X Server 1.5.2
Release Date: 10 October 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-16-server x86_64 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux hari-virbuntu 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 
20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64
Build Date: 24 October 2008  09:06:49AM
xorg-server 2:1.5.2-2ubuntu3 (buildd@crested.buildd) 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
.



Do you want to change the display size that X starts with? (yes/no) [no] 

Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Switching to guest configuration:                                   done
   Guest filesystem driver:                                            done
   Mounting HGFS shares:                                               done
   Guest memory manager:                                               done
   Blocking file system:                                               done
   DMA setup:                                                          done
   Guest operating system daemon:                                      done

The configuration of VMware Tools 7.6.3 build-94249 for Linux for this running 
kernel completed successfully.

You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take 
effect.

You can now run VMware Tools by invoking the following command: 
"/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox" during an X server session.

To make use of the virtual printer, you will need to restart the CUPS service

If you wish to configure any experimental features, please run the following 
command: "vmware-config-tools.pl --experimental".

Enjoy,

--the VMware team