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. NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers high-end data protection for SMBs and enterprises with multiple backup, replication and recovery features, including VMware Backup, Hyper-V Backup, Office 365 Backup and more. 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).
The Unity mode is not available for Linux guests in the latest versions of VMware desktop hypervisors. For example, some features enabled for Windows guests are not available for Linux guests. It is highly recommended that you install VMware Tools on guest OSs running on VMware virtual machines (VMs).Ī set of features available after installing VMware Tools is not the same for different operating systems. 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.
Now double click on VMware Tools on the desktop and perform the installation.By Michael Bose How to Install VMware Tools on Linux, Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, and Solaris
Now go back to the Mac OSX virtual machine, and should see an new drive mounted as VMware Tools.Ħ. Then select the Darwin.iso file that you have downloaded.ĥ. On the right hand side, in the Connection section, click on the Browse button to select the ISO image file.Ĥ. Click on the Hardware tab, and select CD/DVD (SATA) option from the list.ģ.
Once you have downloaded the file follow these steps:Ģ. To fix the error you going to have to mount the darwin.iso file, the virtual DVD drive in the machine settings. This will mount a VMware Tools as a drive on the Mac for you to install the Tools which helps the virtual machine run more smoothly. Typically, on the VMware you go to menu, and click on Install VMware Tools. Contact VMware Support or your system administrator." "Could not find component on update server.
When trying to install the VMware tools on the Mac OS X virtual machines, you may get an error message :