VMware Tools are a set of tools that allow administrators to manage and monitor virtual machines. VMware 5.5.3 is the latest release of VMware Tools and it includes several new features, such as support for Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This article will show you how to install VMware Tools on Ubuntu Edgy using the official installer package or by using the PPA repository. To install VMware Tools on Ubuntu Edgy, you first need to update your system: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y Once your system has been updated, you can install the official installer package from the Ubuntu Software Center: If you want to use the PPA repository instead, you first need to add it: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vmware/tools-installer sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vmware-tools ..
If you are using a version prior to 5.5.3, you will want to follow this guide.
To install the VMware tools, start by choosing “Install VMware tools” from the menu:
You will see a new icon on your desktop, and a File Browser window should be opened immediately. If the file browser doesn’t open, just double-click on the cdrom icon.
You will see a file named VMwareTools-5.5.3-xxxxx.tar.gz. Right click it and choose Extract To. Pick a location to extract the files to.
The tools will be extracted into the folder you chose in the previous step:
For the next step, you will have to open a terminal window and change directory to the location you extracted the files to. Make sure you are inside the vmware-tools-distrib directory, and then run this command:
If you have a prior version of the VMware tools installed, you will see this message:
You will have to use sudo before the commands instead of the way they are listed in the error message, so run these two commands before re-running the vmware tools install script.
The installation of vmware tools should proceed smoothly at this point. It’s important after the installation is done to run the following commands:
sudo ./vmware-tools.pl
At this point, everything should be back up and running. You’ll probably want to reboot just to make sure everything is going to start back up smoothly.
