VMware Tools for Windows XP as guest on Ubuntu Gutsy
Do you use VMware Player on Ubuntu host to use Windows XP as guest? If you are not happy with performance and you are annoyed with the Ctrl-Alt shortcut to leave the guest (that one for you Uros!) then consider installing VMware Tools package on your guest OS. This package is available only for the VMware Workstation but it is possible to install that on the Player as well. From your guest:
1. Download VMware Workstation: http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz
2. Extract windows.iso from the archive which is located in vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/windows.iso
3. Mount the image. You can use free and nicely simple Virtual CDROM Control Panel to do it.
4. Run the setup.exe from the virtual drive
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