VMware Tools installation and configuration tutorial for Ubuntu 18.04

This article records the installation and configuration of VMware Tools under Ubuntu 18.04 for your reference. The specific contents are as follows

1. Open the virtual machine VMware Workstation, start the Ubuntu system, menu bar - Virtual Machine - Install VMware Tools. You cannot click the "Install VMware Tools" option without starting the Ubuntu system, as shown below:

2. After waiting for a few minutes, you will find that the VMware Tools image has been added to the Ubuntu desktop. Click it and there will be a VMwareTools…tar.gz file in it.

3. Next, we extract the VMwareTools...tar.gz file to a directory, as shown below. I extracted it to a newly created directory on the desktop:

4. Install tools and enter yes/no according to the prompts until Enjoy, – the VMware team appears as shown below, indicating that the installation is successful, then manually restart the virtual machine

cd VMwareTools-10.2.5-8068393/

cd vmware-tools-distrib/

ls

Switch to sudo user

sudo su

After VMware Tools is installed, the virtual machine and the host can transfer files by "dragging and dropping".

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