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Drop vmware tools on old Ubuntu guests.
mkdir -p /media/cdrom \
&& mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom \
&& tar -C /tmp -xzvf /media/cdrom/*.gz \
&& /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl -d \
&& rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
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