Resolution Note: This video shows the process, it is the same for different versions Before starting Before downloading and installing VMware Workstation: Ensure that your physical machine meets the system requirements for VMware Workstation. In order to do this, our VM needs to have access to the internet to be able to download the packages from the configured repositories. Purpose The article provide steps to download and install VMware Workstation. In the following steps, we will install open-vm-tools for Ubuntu from the command line. More recently, VMware has been encouraging Operating System vendors and communities to develop their own version of the VMware tools, which are known as the “open-vm-tools.” The VMware Tools (VMware ISO) installations for most Operating Systems are now described as “deprecated”.
In the “Old Days,” the norm was to mount an ISO provided by VMware and install their version of the VMware Tools. Most every Virtual Machine needs to have some sort of VMware Tools running.
John Borhek How to guides, Linux, Operating Systems, Ubuntu, VMware vSphere October 6, 2015
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