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sh: /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl: Permission denied VMware Tools Linux

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Symptom: You see the following permissions error when trying to install VMware Tools on a Linux OS regardless if you are running as su or root:

[root@localhost vmware-tools-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl
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/rc.d]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/rc.d/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-1137270 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".

Can't exec "/usr/lib/vmware-tools/bin/configure-gtk.sh": Permission denied at ./vmware-install.pl line 3955.
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]

sh: /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl: Permission denied
/sbin/restorecon:  Warning no default label for /tmp/vmware-block-restore0/tmp_file
[root@localhost vmware-tools-distrib]#

CentOS VMware Tools Permission Error

Solution: You need to extract the files from the tarball when installing the guest tools via the tar command rather than the build in Archive Manager installed with the OS.

  1. Mount the VMware Tools to the VM
  2. Copy the VMware Tools tarball to the desktop of the Linux OS
    Copy VMwareTools
  3. Execute the following command to extract the tar's contents
    1. tar -zxvf VMwareTools-9.0.5-1137270.tar.gz
  4. Change directories to the vmware-tools-distrib that was just extracted from the tarball and execute the following commands to begin the installation
    1. cd vmware-tools-distrib
    2. ./vmware-install.pl
      vmware-install.pl

VMware vSphere - Can't install VMware Tools

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Are you running into the issue where you click VM->Guest->Install/Upgrade VMware tools? I have found that if I try creating a VM with the VMXNETv3 adapter and am using an older version of Windows, the DVD drivers aren't picked up properly and VMware tools won't install.

That being said, the only way I have found to get things working is to manually install VMware tools... yep! You VMware does offer the ability to download any version of VMware tool's ISO files.
Head on over to http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html and download the version you would like and simply mount the tools as you would with any other disk. For whatever reason, mounting the disk manually by clicking on the "Disk with a wrench icon" and selecting an ISO connected to my local machine, seems to work and gets me back in business.

Hope this helps!

How To Install VMWare Tools v4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server

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Today I was faced the challenge of installing VMware Tools on a Ubuntu server via command line.  I stumbled accross a step-by-step tutorial on the exact steps to accomplish this task.  I am reposting for archival purposes, but all credit goes to @justinschier from http://ghosttx.com/2012/03/how-to-install-vmware-tools-v4-on-ubuntu-11-10-server/

Written: March 13, 2012
Last Updated: April 27, 2012
Tested With: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, Ubuntu 11.10 Server

All the guides I found on the Internet, including VMWare’s website were outdated in some way, so I decided to write a guide of my own. I just went through these steps from start to finish on a fresh server and had no problems.

  1. Use Install VMWare Tools option in VMWare Client/Console to attach media
  2. Update the server
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade
  3. Create the mount point
    sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom
  4. Mount the ISO
    sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

    You should see the message: mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

  5. Change Directory
    cd /media/cdrom
  6. Copy the tar file to your /tmp directory
    sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp
  7. Install Build tools if necessary
    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server build-essential
  8. Change Directory
    cd /tmp
  9. Unmount the ISO
    sudo umount /media/cdrom
  10. Expand the tar
    sudo tar xzvf VM*.tar.gz
  11. Change Directory
    cd vmware-tools-distrib
  12. To prevent a potential error in the install script on Ubuntu 11.10, create a special directory
    Unable to create symlink “/usr/lib64/libvmcf.so” pointing to file ”/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib64/libvmcf.so/libvmcf.so”.

    sudo mkdir /usr/lib64
  13. Run the Install Script. The -d flag automatically answers the default to all questions. To customize it, just omit the -d.
    sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d
  14. Reboot
    sudo reboot

Let me know if this worked for you!

Also, please follow me on Twitter: @justinschier