- Inject the Vmware Tools CD on your VMware host
- start a local session (within your VMware host. The network connection will be lost during the installation)
- Install the needed packets (also refer to my proxy-post here)
apt-get -y install gcc cpp make automake autoconf binutils psmisc unp
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
- Make a folder for the CD-ROM Drive
mkdir /mnt
Mount /dev/scd0 /mnt
- Extract the VMware package
unp /mnt/VMware*.tar.gz
- Change to the VMware folder
cd vmware-tools-*
- start the installer with perl
Perl vmware-install.pl
- Hit Enter on all question (Default settings)
- Do not install VMsync if you don’t need it (I think you can skip this)
- Reboot
shutdown -r now