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Install VMware Tools

We are using open-vm-tools, as recommend for Ubuntu 14.x and above.

Install

  1. Create empty CD drive for vm.
  2. Start VM and click VM > Install VM Tools
  3. In the VM run
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-version.tar.gz .
sudo umount /mnt/cdrom
rmdir /mnt/cdrom
tar -zxvf VMwareTools-version.tar.gz
rm VMWareTools-version.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
  1. Follow prompts and install
  2. rm -rf vmware-tools-distrib

Configure Autostart

Autostart should work. To enable the shared clipboard you need to run /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper

Uninstall

If you want to uninstall VMware Tools again, run:

sudo /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl