Install Vmware Tools on Linux

Under Debian necessary:
apt-get install autoconf automake make psmisc gcc
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential

Short:
tar -xzvf VMwareTools-######.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
vmware-tools-config.pl

Long:
Viclient, Connect to VM
Menu "VM/Install VMware Tools"
Tools are mounted to Cdrom
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
tar zxvf VMware-Tools-xxxxxx.tar.gz -C /opt/
cd /opt/vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

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