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How to Install VMware Guest Tools on Ubuntu Linux

This post shows students and new users how to install VMware Guest Machines Tools on Ubuntu guest machines to enhance performance. The VMware Tools offer several valuable features, including improved graphics performance, shared folders, shared clipboard, drag and drop operations, and more.

We recently showed you how to install VMware Workstation Pro on Ubuntu Linux. You can read that post here.

Whenever you create a new Ubuntu guest machine, you should always follow up with installing the VMware Guest Tools. Without the Guest Tools, the virtual machine may not work as intended.

The tools are now available as open-source packages called Open VM Tools (OVT) and via Ubuntu default package repositories. You can also use the built-in tools that come with VMware host software.

In my test, I found that built-in tools work better than open-source ones.

To learn how to install VMware guest tools, follow the steps below:

How to install the Open VM Tools on Ubuntu guest machines

As mentioned above, Open VM Tools is the open-source implementation of VMware guest tools. The packages are available in Ubuntu default repositories.

The tools are split into two packages: open-VM-tools for headless systems and open-vm-tools-desktop for desktop systems.

To install the opensource version, run the comment below:

sudo apt update sudo apt install open-vm-tools

sudo apt update sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop

It would be best to restart the machine for the changes to take effect.

How to install VMware Guest Tools from VMware Host

The tools can also be installed from VMware host software. For desktop machines, this might be a better option.

To install, open the VMware host software. Start the guest machine and select VM –> Install VMware Tools from the guest machine menu.

This will temporarily mount VMware Workstation virtual CD drive with the guest tools content on to Ubuntu guest machine.

While the virtual CD drive is mounted, open the Ubuntu terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T keys on your keyboard.

Then run the commands below to extract the content from the virtual CD drive you must mount to the /tmp directory. This directory is a temporary location and will be deleted once the system reboots.

tar -xvf /media/$USER/"VMware Tools"/VMwareTools*.gz -C /tmp

Finally, run the commands below to install the tools. The -d option with the commands will install all the recommended plugins and modules with the default options.

sudo /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl -d

If you want to manually select the options and configuration, run it without the -d option.

When the installation completes, reboot your machine, and you’re all set!

This post showed you how to install the VMware Guest Tools on Ubuntu guest machines. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have anything to add.

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This page explains how to install the VMware Tools on an Ubuntu guest VM.

Installing VMware tools on an Ubuntu guest

• the open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu
• packages.vmware.com
• your VMware host (this method does not use .deb packages)

VMware recommends users to use open-vm-tools on Linux, including Ubuntu.

Installing from Ubuntu package open-vm-tools on Trusty Tahr 14.04 and later

open-vm-tools is the recommended method of installing VMware tools on Ubuntu. Packages are available in the main repository since 14.04.

# For desktop: apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop # For server and headless installations: apt-get install open-vm-tools

If you are on Trusty after upgrading from an older release, you may need to use open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-desktop instead.

Legacy Ubuntu Installations

Given the nature of virtualization, there may be a need for continued usage of very old versions of Ubuntu. Instructions for 10.04 to 12.04 are listed below. For anything older, please consult VMware’s installation guide.

Installing from Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) on Lucid Lynx 10.04 to Precise Pangolin 12.04

The package open-vm-tools is available in the multiverse repository for releases 10.04 to 12.04. However, these versions are very out of date and may not have the drivers for newer versions of ESXi and VMware Workstation / Player / Fusion. For this reason, if you are still in need of a legacy Ubuntu VM, installation from VMware’s repository is recommended. Use 12.04 package for Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10 releases.

Lucid: apt-add-repository 'deb https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/latest/ubuntu/ lucid main' Natty: apt-add-repository 'deb https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/latest/ubuntu/ natty main' Oneiric: apt-add-repository 'deb https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/latest/ubuntu/ oneiric main' Precise: apt-add-repository 'deb https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/latest/ubuntu/ precise main' wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub -q -O- | \ apt-key add - # (The above links to the latest builds of VMware-tools; however, # these packages should be compatible with all VMware servers, including the ESX 4 to vSphere ESXi 6.5. # Next update your repos apt-get update

Note: using apt-add-repository will also add an entry for sources, which are not available in the vmware repository. You’ll need to manually delete the deb-src entry for «packages.vmware.com», which should be at the bottom of your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

sudo apt-get install vmware-tools-esx-kmods-kernel_release # Where kernel_release is the kernel release and type returned by the uname -r command. # For example: vmware-tools-esx-kmods-2.6.32-21-generic # Then for desktop VMs or those that need graphics support sudo apt-get install vmware-tools-esx-nox # Or for server and headless installations sudo apt-get install vmware-tools-esx # Some versions may require kernel headers sudo apt-get install linux-headers-virtual

Verify the succesful installation

# Verify that the VMware Tools daemon, vmtoolsd, is running. pgrep -fl vmtoolsd # Verify that the required kernel modules load properly. /sbin/lsmod

Kernel modules are only loaded for the virtual devices being used. However, the vmmemctl module should always be loaded.

Installing from your VMware host

Warning: This install method does not use Ubuntu packages. Instead, it bypasses dpkg and writes files directly to your system. This is generally not recommended.

Start up a terminal window and do the following to ensure that you have the required packages for building VMware Tools or your kernel.

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` psmisc

NOTE: linux-headers-uname -r is not required on a default build as these headers already exist. They are listed here in case you have made kernel modifications.

From the VMware menu, choose VM->Install VMware Tools. You should see a mounted CD image show up on the desktop. In the File Browser that pops up, right-click the VMwareTools*.tar.gz file and extract to the Desktop.

If the cdrom was not automatically mounted, mount the cdrom (in your guest OS) by doing

# make a mount point if needed : sudo mkdir /media/cdrom # Mount the CD sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom # Copy and extract VMWareTools sudo cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools*.tar.gz ~/Desktop # You can extract with archive manager, right click on the archive and extract . or tar xvf VMwareTools*.tar.gz # Install as below

Open a terminal window, and run the following commands.

cd ~/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib sudo ./vmware-install.pl

During vmware-install.pl, choose the default answers to everything (just hit the key).

You can configure the tools as root

Otherwise run them as a user (not root)

• In order for the synchronized clipboard and mouse to function as well as the host shared folders feature, you must have vmware-toolbox running, although you can minimize the window.

To have vmware tools auto start with your sessions, go to System->Preferences->Sessions->Startup Programs. Click Add, enter vmware-toolbox, Ok, Close.

If you are running a Kubuntu guest OS.

echo "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox" > ~/.kde/Autostart/vmware-toolbox.sh chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/vmware-toolbox.sh

In order to get the scroll wheel to work again after the above install, you will need to make a minor change to the xorg.conf file.

In the «Configured Mouse» section, change the following line as indicated:

If you have more than five buttons (scroll wheel counts as three), then you might need the following line:

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

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