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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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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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Mounting VMware shared folders on Ubuntu - ANSWER

There are many pages on this, but they are not all careful to distinguish WHICH set of vmware tools they are describing. There are two sets that are quite different: The apt package open-vm-tools (and open-vm-tools-desktop) The VMware tools…
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vmware tools installation problem

I just installed XUbuntu on my Vmware Workstation. After I saw, that I can't change display settings (resolution), I try to install VMware Tools. But - after I run vmware-install.pl, I get a message: The following VMware kernel modules have been…
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How to uncompress VMware tools file with tar

I'm attempting to install VMware tools on a Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS vm and I get the following message: Make sure that you are logged in to the guest OS. Mount the virtual cd drive in the guest, launch a terminal, and use tar to uncompress the…
Antonio Lisboa
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VMWare Tools Won't Install on Edubuntu (on VMware Workstation)

I can install Edubuntu on workstation 11 but i cannot get VMware tools installed probably to get the display and network devices working properly. Can anyone help or advise?
Marc Esmiley
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