{"id":2093,"date":"2018-08-03T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:43:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:43:25","slug":"install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-vm\/","title":{"rendered":"Install VMware tools on Ubuntu VM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Ubuntu the simplest way to install the VMware tools is through apt.<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install open-vmware-tools<\/pre>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t have to do anything else.<\/p>\n<p>You can also install the tools by hitting Install VMware tools from either the web UI, or vShpere.\u00a0 This will mount a virtual CD on the OS, you can then copy the contents to a local directory in the vm.\u00a0 You can then proceed to install them by extracting the tar file with<\/p>\n<pre>tar -xzf VMware*<\/pre>\n<p>cd into the new directory<\/p>\n<pre>cd vmware*<\/pre>\n<p>and run<\/p>\n<pre>sudo .\/vmware-install.pl<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ubuntu the simplest way to install the VMware tools is through apt. sudo apt-get install open-vmware-tools Shouldn&#8217;t have to do anything else. You can also install the tools by hitting Install VMware tools from either the web UI, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-vm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,39,376],"tags":[49,42,377],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","category-virtualization","category-vmware","tag-ubuntu-2","tag-virtualization-2","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}