The legacy method to install VMware Tools Let’s review how to install VMware Tools on a VM running Ubuntu 18 ESXi 6.5 and VMware Workstation 15 are used in our lab for writing today’s blog post.
The algorithm for installing VMware Tools is similar for VMs running on VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Player and VMware Fusion. In other Linux distributions, use the appropriate package managers such as zypper in SUSE and yum in Red Hat based distributions.
In Debian-based distributions, you can install the necessary packages with the command:Īpt-get install binutils cpp gcc make psmisc linux-headers-$(uname -r) In some Linux distributions, you may need to manually install the packages required for VMware Tools installation (such as kernel headers and tools that are needed to compile VMware Tools during installation).
A VM can work without VMware Tools, but most features and advantages of using VMs are not available without the VMware Tools functionality. Each hardware version uses the appropriate emulated hardware, drivers which are installed with VMware Tools. As you may recall, when you create a VM, you should select the hardware version. This is achieved through offering better mouse performance (no lags with a mouse pointer), higher graphics performance, shared clipboard, the ability to drag & drop files, in addition to scripting to automate tasks inside a VM. VMware Tools is a set of drivers and utilities that are installed on a guest operating system (OS) and can improve the performance of the guest OS, synchronize time between a host and guest, and improve the user experience.