Comment installer en 6 étapes les VMWare tools pour Ubuntu Serveur
Après une montée de version de ma plateforme VMWare ESXi, j’ai du refaire l’installation des outils VMWare plus connus sous le nom de VMWare Tools.
Une rapide recherche sur google et sur le site de VMWare me proposent des solutions plus ou moins pénible à mettre en œuvre et qui ne me conviennent pas du tout.
Keep it Simple !
La solution que je propose en six étapes:
Etape 1: On se connect sur Vsphere, on vérifie que les outils ne soient pas activés ou installés.
Etape N°2 : On monte l’image des tools via le menu suivant dans Vsphere.
Etape N°3 : On se connecte sur la VM désirée (ici VMubuntutest01), on monte l’image via le cdrom virtuel et on fait une copie des tools dans le répertoire TMP. Bien entendu, on a pris soin de vérifer que les paquets build-essentials sont présents et installés sur le serveur.
Ensuite, on monte le CDROM 🙂 et on lance une copie vers /tmp
Etape N°5 : On décompresse le fichier dans /tmp et on lance l’installation des tools.
root@VMLXTEST01:/tmp# tar -xvzf VMwareTools-9.0.5-1065307.tar.gz vmware-tools-distrib/ vmware-tools-distrib/installer/ vmware-tools-distrib/installer/services.sh vmware-tools-distrib/installer/upstart-job.conf vmware-tools-distrib/FILES vmware-tools-distrib/INSTALL vmware-tools-distrib/doc/ vmware-tools-distrib/doc/INSTALL vmware-tools-distrib/doc/open_source_licenses.txt vmware-tools-distrib/doc/README vmware-tools-distrib/etc/ vmware-tools-distrib/etc/xsession-xdm.pl vmware-tools-distrib/etc/tpvmlp.conf vmware-tools-distrib/etc/vmware-user.desktop vmware-tools-distrib/etc/resume-vm-default vmware-tools-distrib/etc/xsession-xdm.sh vmware-tools-distrib/etc/vmware-user.Xresources vmware-tools-distrib/etc/xsession-gdm.sh vmware-tools-distrib/etc/installer.sh vmware-tools-distrib/etc/manifest.txt.shipped vmware-tools-distrib/etc/vmware-tools-prelink.conf vmware-tools-distrib/etc/vmware-tools-libraries.conf vmware-tools-distrib/etc/vmware-tools/ vmware-tools-distrib/etc/poweroff-vm-default vmware-tools-distrib/etc/poweron-vm-default vmware-tools-distrib/etc/not_configured
root@VMLXTEST01:/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl -d
Creating a new VMware Tools installer database using the tar4 format.
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 9.0.5 build-1065307 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]
Initializing...
Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.
The module vmci has already been installed on this system by another installer
or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
--clobber-kernel-modules=vmci to override.
The module vsock has already been installed on this system by another installer
or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
--clobber-kernel-modules=vsock to override.
The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
--clobber-kernel-modules=vmxnet3 to override.
The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
--clobber-kernel-modules=pvscsi to override.
The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
--clobber-kernel-modules=vmmemctl to override.
The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS
and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish
to enable this feature? [no]
The vmxnet driver is no longer supported on kernels 3.3 and greater. Please
upgrade to a newer virtual NIC. (e.g., vmxnet3 or e1000e)
The vmblock enables dragging or copying files between host and guest in a
Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish to enable this feature?
[no]
!!! [EXPERIMENTAL] !!!
VMware automatic kernel modules enables automatic building and installation of
VMware kernel modules at boot that are not already present. By selecting yes,
you will be enabling this experimental feature. You can always disable this
feature by re-running vmware-config-tools.pl.
Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modules?
[no]
No X install found.
Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-15-generic
vmware-tools start/running
The configuration of VMware Tools 9.0.5 build-1065307 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 "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd" from the
command line.
To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and
file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and,
3. Restart your X session.
Enjoy,
--the VMware team
Found VMware Tools CDROM mounted at /media/cdrom. Ejecting device /dev/sr0 ...
root@VMLXTEST01:/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib#
Etape N°6 : L’installation s’est faite sans aucun message d’erreur et on peut voir dans la console Vsphere l’installation des tools…
Pour finir, un reboot du serveur est vraiment souhaitable mais attention si on est en production 🙂
