Comments on: Install Ubuntu 8.04 using VMware Fusion on Mac OS X

By: Eric Darby

Eric Darby — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:26:44 +0000

This worked like a charm. Thanks so much!

By: Gregory Wiest

Gregory Wiest — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:12:00 +0000

Thanks a lot!

By: Robzt

Robzt — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:20:38 +0000

Thank you so much!!!!

By: dewphy

dewphy — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:26:34 +0000

All work pretty well!

But, I still have a question : have you any idea of how to make the /mnt/hfs/ available for a non super user in linux, and keep file permission unchanged ?

Typing “chmod 770 -R” works find to get access but it dramatically changes permission in MacOSX.

Thanks!!!

By: dogfish

dogfish — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:41 +0000

I also needed to
$ sudo apt-get install libicu-dev
to get the ./configure && make to work.

By: mnemonic

mnemonic — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:23:17 +0000

Nice guide. Thank you so much.

Just to point out, there is another command called vmware-tools-updater. It also seems to figure out the modules. But I still had problems with drag ‘n drop files from host to guest. This guide helped solve that issue.

Keep up the good work.;;

By: Ceres

Ceres — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:14:21 +0000

dixon1e, thanks! It did the trick!

Some notes:

- actually compiling the source was not required… just downloading and packing up the modules was
- the bash script he created to pack up the source didn’t quite work for me so I just manually renamed all of the module directories to have “-only” at the end and then manually tared the files with out the “-only” at the end, and moved the files over

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:32:03 +0000

I’ve just installed it but I can’t get the cursor to move at all.
Did a second installation, same problem

By: dixon1e

dixon1e — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:46:31 +0000

ceres, try this URL:

http://peterc.org/2008/62-how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-hardy-804-under-vmware-fusion.html#comment-262

I followed it to the letter and it all worked out. Literally cut and paste, though I claim I actually had *some* idea of what was going on.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:40:27 +0000

Hi there. Just had to say thanks for the VM Ware tools part. Followed your directions and took me less then 5 minutes. Keep up the good work and have fun.