VMWare Tools Installation in Ubuntu 10.10

**Brij_Raj_Kishore** · May 24th, 2016

I am Unable To Install VmWare Tools For My Linux Distro 10.10. I tried the following guide from the official vmware site. I Am Currently Running -:

Windows 10 - Host OS.
Ubuntu 10.10 - Guest OS In Vmware 12 workstation
I am getting this error

**TheFu** · May 24th, 2016

Support for 10.10 ended, er ... in 2011. Move to a supported release - probably 14.04 today and 16.04 in July (after the .1 release). You definitely need to be on LTS releases.

This won't help with your issue. Check that the VM has a fake-CDROM and that something (like an ISO) has been connected to it. This is a common missed step - and not just for you, but for everyone. I've done it at least 10 times - maybe 50 - over the years.

If there isn't a Fake-CDROM deviced added to the VM, you'll never mount it. It can be either IDE or SATA, but IDE is more common in the other VM hypervisors. I stopped using all VMware products around 2011, so haven't seen anything from then since. Ubuntu Server doesn't automatically mount any storage, IME.

Definitely check the device name - could be /dev/sr? or /dev/sd? or /dev/hd? - depends on the fake-interface seen.

People here will be more familiar with VirtualBox or KVM.

**deadflowr** · May 24th, 2016

Well two things (aside from the EOL of 10.10)

1) Perhaps the device is /dev/sr0, instead of /dev/cdrom.

2) And it is more likely that the cd is already mounted.
Ubuntu does that, did that even back in 2010.

Look in the /media directory (this is where Ubuntu designates placing external storage devices such as cd's or external hard drives, etc, etc)

Or simply run command: mount
That will show all that's mounted on the system. As well as where it is mounted.

**slickymaster** · May 24th, 2016

Thread moved to Virtualisation.

**TheFu** · May 24th, 2016

Originally Posted by deadflowr

Look in the /media directory (this is where Ubuntu designates placing external storage devices such as cd's or external hard drives, etc, etc)

Ubuntu Server doesn't automatically mount anything, IME.

**Brij_Raj_Kishore** · May 28th, 2016

The Out put Of

Code:

mount

command is

Code:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/mrinmoy/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=mrinmoy)

**TheFu** · May 28th, 2016

Please verify that there is a fake CDROM/DVD device added to the VM inventory. As I said above, if that isn't there, you cannot mount a CD. Well, that isn't actually true - there are ways using an ISO file and the mount -o loop.

Also, it would be much more readable if "code tags" were used, not quotes.