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This article mainly introduces how to install VMware Tools under Linux. It is very detailed and has a certain reference value. Friends who are interested must finish it!

VMware Tools is an enhanced toolkit for VMware Workstation virtual machine software, which is a driver provided by VMware to enhance the performance of virtual video cards and hard drives, and to synchronize virtual machines with host files.

System environment Centos7.7Centos8.0Fedora31Ubuntu18.04 online installation of VMware Tools

The easiest way to do this in Centos7,Centos8,Fedora31,Ubuntu is to install open-vm-tools from the network repository. Open VM Tools is an open source implementation of the VMware tool for the Linux guest operating system. Open-vm-tools is divided into two packages, one for non-graphical interfaces and the other for tools with graphical interfaces.

Install open-vm-tools# on Fedora31/Centos7/Centos8 without graphical interface install this package [root@localhost] # yum-y install open-vm-tools# install this package [root@localhost] # yum-y install open-vm-tools-desktop install open-vm-tools# on Ubuntu18.04 without graphical interface install this package bob@ubuntu-18-04install open-vm-tools# install $sudo apt install open- Vm-tools# has a graphical interface to install this package bob@ubuntu-18-04 sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop

Mount the ISO file and install VMware Tools

Open VMware Workstation, open the virtual machine that needs to install VMware Tools, right-click the tab above, and click "install VMware Tools (T) …"

Install VMwareTools # mount the CD-ROM drive to the / mnt directory [root@localhost ~] # mount / dev/sr0 / mnt# to the home directory [root@localhost ~] # tar-zxvf / mnt/VMwareTools-10.3.10-12406962.tar.gz-C ~ [root@localhost ~] # cd vmware-tools-distrib/ [root@localhost vmware-tools-distrib] #. / vmware-install.pl-f-d

. / vmware-install.pl parameter explanation:

-d: automatically answer questions and suggested answers. -f: force installation

After the installation is complete, uninstall, eject the virtual CD, and restart the operating system

[root@localhost ~] # umount / mnt [root@localhost ~] # eject [root@localhost ~] # reboot install VMwareTools # Mount the CD-ROM drive to the / mnt directory bob@ubuntu-18-04root@localhost / mnt# decompress the file to the home directory bob@ubuntu-18-04VRO $tar-zxvf / mnt/VMwareTools-10.3.10-12406962.tar.gz-C ~ bob@ubuntu-18-04VOD $cd vmware-tools-distrib/ Bob@ubuntu-18-04VMAX-04VMAX-F-d / vmware-install.pl-f-d

After the installation is complete, uninstall, eject the virtual CD, and restart the operating system

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