VMware Tools into their product releases. Vendors and/or communities and virtual appliance vendors to bundle The primary purpose for open-vm-tools is to enable operating system VMware recommends users to use open-vm-tools on Linux, includingįrom VmWare white paper VMware support for open-vm-tools (2073803) Installing it from the package manager also is much more convenient, as it brings automatically the dependencies, security updates and it it plays better with new kernel updates. If running a desktop/graphical interface in the VM, and having VMware tools installed in desktop/notebook as in your case, you might also want to install open-vm-tools-desktop so, the command is instead: sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktopĪs an added advantage, open-vm-tools, at least in pure Debian, does not need to be compiled, and thus not needing to install neither the kernel headers nor the compiler. To install it in Ubuntu/Debian, you do: sudo apt update

Even VMware own white papers advise using open VMware tools nowadays. I would advise against using VMware tools use instead the open VMWare tools.

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