Note that, you might need to restart your Ubuntu virtual machine, after the VMware Tools installation has completed.īy installing VM Tools you enable additional features that are not enabled by default, These features includes: Efficient memory management, correct screen resolution, better console display, improves mouse movement, cut and paste, drag and drop functionality, time synchronization and etc. Respond to the configuration questions on the screen appropriately. Move into the /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/ and execute the script: cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/ For users that are in a desktop environment, run the following command. Sudo tar -zxvf VMwareTools-10.2. -C /tmp/ Install Open VM Tools Package on Ubuntu Linux Depending on the Ubuntu environment you are working in, such as Ubuntu desktop or Ubuntu server, which is a headless system using cli commands only, you can install various packages of OpenVMware tools to suit your needs. Move into the /mnt and extract the VMware Tools package to the /tmp directory: cd /mnt/ Open the terminal and mount the ISO image to the /mnt directory: sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/ Right click on the Virtual machine and click “Install VMware Tools.”. If youre running the latest version of Vmware software product,you can install newest version of. But for some reason, if you want to install the VMware Tools package that ships with VMware, perform the following steps: VMware Tools are fully compatible with Ubuntu 10.04. VMware itself recommends open-vm-tools for Ubuntu. Generally, open-vm-tools is supported for OSs that use three different package management systems: Ubuntu, Debian and other OSes from this family use apt to install Debian (.deb) packages Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS use dnf or yum to install RPM (.rpm) packages SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and openSUSE use zypper to install RPM (.
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