Using compiler “/usr/bin/gcc”. Use environment variable CC to override.

Your compiler “/usr/bin/gcc” version “gcc 版本 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4)
” is not supported by this version of VMware Tools.

The memory manager driver (vmmemctl module) is used by VMware host software to
efficiently reclaim memory from a virtual machine.
If the driver is not available, VMware host software may instead need to swap
guest memory to disk, which may reduce performance.
The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
independently of this feature.
If you want the memory management feature, you can install the driver by
running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make
and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine.
These packages are available on your distribution’s installation CD.
[ Press Enter key to continue ]

郁闷坏了，经过调试发现这个破VMWare Tools在获取gcc版本信息时是解析“gcc version …”，而且必须是英语的version，偏偏中文版Ubuntu把这个也翻译了。解决办吧就是更改Ubuntu的系统语言为English。通过菜单系统->系统管理->语言支持，把默认语言改成English(United States)，退出之后再次登录，重新安装即可顺利通过安装。

但是在进入到vmware-config-tools.pl这一步时却又报错。说是__grab_cache_page函数重定义了。VMWare现在都是最大的虚拟化供应商怎么犯这个错误了。解决办法是进入/usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source目录解压vmhgfs.tar中的page.c，并编辑page.c中的867行修改为

page = grab_cache_page(mapping, index);

重新运行vmware-config-tools.pl即可。

安装完成后默认/etc/passwd文件内容如下：

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/sh
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/sh
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/bin/sh
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/bin/sh
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/bin/sh
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh
syslog:x:101:102::/home/syslog:/bin/false
klog:x:102:103::/home/klog:/bin/false
mysql:x:103:104:MySQL Server,,,:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/false
admin:x:1000:1000:Administrator,,,:/home/admin:/bin/bash

具体内容根据选择安装的服务不同而不同。Ubuntu默认创建了20多个帐号，大部分人并不知道这些帐号的具体用途，其中有几个帐号对于一个web服务器来说一般是不必要，可以通过更改shell的方式禁用这些帐号的登录（/bin/false）:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/false
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/false
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/false
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/false
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/false
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/bin/sh
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/bin/false
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/bin/false
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/false
syslog:x:101:102::/home/syslog:/bin/false
klog:x:102:103::/home/klog:/bin/false
mysql:x:103:104:MySQL Server,,,:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/false
admin:x:1000:1000:Administrator,,,:/home/admin:/bin/bash

当然，如果相关服务是需要用到的服务，就不要更改shell了。