How to install vmware tools on Ubuntu

1 year ago
Emily Johnson
1 minute

To install VMware Tools on Ubuntu, you need to follow these steps:

  1. Open the VMware virtual machine and then select “Virtual Machine” > “Install VMware Tools” from the main menu.
  2. An optical disk image containing the VMware Tools installation program will be automatically mounted in the virtual machine.
  3. Elevate to root privileges and mount the CD-ROM device to the /mnt directory.
  4. Extract the contents of the VMware Tools tar.gz file to the /tmp/ directory.
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  6. Navigate to the directory /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
  7. Run the script vmware-install.pl with elevated privileges.
  8. Restart the system using the superuser command “reboot”.

Once these steps are completed, VMware Tools will be installed in the Ubuntu virtual machine.

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