Edit: Remember to read the comments of this question as other users provided more up-to-date and accurate solutions.
Okay so what I did was, when it said
The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-19-generic kernel headers.
Would you like to cange it?
I typed in 'no', so then it stopped the install. I then wrote the
usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
command again and it automatically, I think skipped the steps, and it said
The configuration of vmware tools 9.2.3 build-1031360 for linux for this running kernel completed
successfully. you must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics cahnges can take effect.
you can now run vmware tools by invoking "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd" from the command line.
to enable X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and file and text copy/pase),
you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
2. log out and lokg back into your desktop sessionl and,
3. restart your X session
to use the vmxnet driver, restart networking using the following commands:
/etc/init.d/networking stop
rmmod pcnet32
rmmod vmxnet
modprobe vmxnet
/etc/init.d/networking start
If my VMware tools does not run properly, I will reply back in this post. Also, thanks to the person who voted this down without even replying or telling me why.
Okay I started using VMware, works good! I needed to set up a shared drive between my host OS and VM and I needed to run the
sudo vmware-config-tools.pl
again and in the prompts, it said the path '/usr/bin/gcc' appears valid, the path at 'lib/modules/3.8.0-30-generic/build/include' appears to be valid (if you read my post, if you guys did not do
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
it probably will say 'lib/modules/3.8.0-19-generic/build/include' instead of 'lib/modules/3.8.0-30-generic/build/include'). If you have '-19' and not '-30' and if it DOESN'T work, try running the two commands above and see if it works.