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VMware tools is a software installed in the guest operating system when using VMware Player, Workstation or ESX software for virtualization. It provides additional features such as network and video acceleration.

The VMware Tools are software installed on a guest VM for improving performance when running on a VMware ESXi, Player or Workstation on host.

This software provides:

  • VMware Network acceleration
  • VMware Video acceleration
  • Host to Guest time synchronization
  • Seamless mouse movement between host and guest
  • Cut & Paste - Guest to Host and Guest to Guest (with VMware Toolbox) (possibly only on gnome)
  • Disk Shrink (with VMware Toolbox running at root)
  • Startup/Shutdown Scripts (with VMware Toolbox running at root)
  • HeartBeat (VMware/Esx only ?)

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How do I mount shared folders in Ubuntu using VMware tools?

Experts. I've successfully installed VMware tools for Ubuntu. Everything seems to work fine, but shared folders were not mounted automatically. How do I get them to work? If I run vmware-hgfsclient in terminal, I get the list of shared folders, but…
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Copy/paste and drag&drop not working in VMware machine with Ubuntu

Suddenly copy/paste stopped working from/to Windows 8 host computer to/from ubuntu virtual machine. Ubuntu restart did not help. I tried command: sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools But got report I have newest version. Guest Isolation settings are…
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How to install vmware tools?

I installed my Ubuntu in vmware, no I need install vmware tools, I got error: Searching for a valid kernel header path... The path "" is not valid. Would you like to change it?[yes] In CentOS, I run the following commands to resolve this…
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Cannot install vmware-tools: A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected

I encounter this error: The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory. Hi there are still issues as listed below. Please advise ronald@ronald-virtual-machine:~/Desktop/vmware tools/vmware-tools-distrib$ sudo…
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Getting shared folders working in vmware fusion 8.1.0 and ubuntu 14.04

Yes, I've seen the other answers. Either they don't work or they do un-recommended things like installing the old deprecated VMWare Tools I'm looking for a solution that uses the recommended open-vm-tools The offical instructions for Ubuntu 14.04 on…
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open-vm-tools doesn't resize display

I am running Ubuntu 15.10 in VMware Workstation 12 Player on Windows 7. Since VMware has stopped updating VMware Tools or something, I have to use open-vm-tools. Unfortunately, it doesn't resize the display. My installation is something of a mess…
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VMware tools not working 14.04

So I upgraded my distro from 12.10 to 14.04 and VMware tools now no longer works. I've recompiled with the new 3.13 kernel, I've tried uninstalling and installing again, nothing seems to be working. I've even fixed vmhgfs.
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error "fatal error: linux/smp_lock.h: No such file or directory" during installation of VMWare tools on Ubuntu 12.04.2

I have Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS installed on a VMware machine on Windows 7 host. I seem to have a problem with Kernel headers when trying to install them I did: sudo apt-get install gcc make build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) and got…
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Copy and paste between Mac and Ubuntu using keyboard shortcuts via VMware Fusion

I use OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and have VMware Fusion 7.1.1 where Ubuntu 14.04 has been installed. Moreover, I have installed VMware Tools patches. Copy and paste between Mac and Ubuntu using keyboard shortcuts (Command+C then Command+V) worked fine…
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VMWare Windows 7 (host) Ubuntu 14.04 (guest) shared folder won't mount

I have a windows 7 with vmware workstation 9, and I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 on it. I configured the shared folder in the VM/settings menu, and I can see it in the Ubuntu when doing vmware-hgfsclient. But there's nothing inside /mnt folder. I've tried…
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Copy/paste not working in Vmware

I run my Ubuntu in a VMWare virtual machine that is hosted by Win10. Vmware tools is installed. I can't copy from notepad in Windows and paste into Ubuntu applications. Vice versa works fine. The virtual machine settings for copy/paste -…
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"Updating VMware Tools for Linux" spins forever

I installed Ubuntu 11.04 using VMware Player 3.1.4 inside Ubuntu 10.10 When first booting on the ISO image I was asked if I wanted to download the VMware Tools for Linux and I accepted. It downloaded for a few minutes, and then it has been…
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vmware app loader crashed while installing vmware-tools for windows guest

I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 and vmware player 5.0.2. I'm trying to install Win 7 as guest and when it tries to install vmware-tools, the vmware app loader crashes with the `error updating software component. Any ideas whats wrong here?
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Install VMware tools

I have an ubuntu vm on VMware ESXi, When I try to install VMware tools it is grayed out, I make sure it is not installed. Note: I install Ubuntu server 23.04 from USB stick. Also there no internet connection
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No Mouse/Keyboard interaction in new Ubuntu install with xfce4 (VirtualMachine)

I'm running Ubuntu-Server 16.04.2 LTS in VMware-Workstation-12-Player. I installed sudo apt install xfce4 and sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop when I now start the X-Server by startx I see this screen I can see the curser…
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