I choose to mount them on demand and have them ignored by sudo mount -a and the such with the noauto option, because I noticed the shares have an impact on VM performance. host:/ /mnt/hgfs/ fuse.vmhgfs-fuse defaults,allow_other,uid=1000 0 0 If you want them mounted on startup, update /etc/fstab with the following: # Use shared folders between VMWare guest and host host:/my-shared-folder /mnt/hgfs/ -o allow_other -o uid=1000 In that case you can find out the share's name with vmware-hgfsclient.

You may have use a specific folder instead of. If the hgfs directory doesn't exist, try: sudo vmhgfs-fuse. host:/ /mnt/hgfs/ -o allow_other -o uid=1000 For Ubuntu 18.04 (or recent Debian distros), try: sudo vmhgfs-fuse. Note that, you might need to restart your Ubuntu virtual machine, after the VMware Tools installation has completed.īy installing VM Tools you enable additional features that are not enabled by default, These features includes: Efficient memory management, correct screen resolution, better console display, improves mouse movement, cut and paste, drag and drop functionality, time synchronization and etc.Most other answers are outdated. Respond to the configuration questions on the screen appropriately. Move into the /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/ and execute the script: cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/ Sudo tar -zxvf VMwareTools-10.2. -C /tmp/ Move into the /mnt and extract the VMware Tools package to the /tmp directory: cd /mnt/ Open the terminal and mount the ISO image to the /mnt directory: sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/ Right click on the Virtual machine and click “Install VMware Tools.”. But for some reason, if you want to install the VMware Tools package that ships with VMware, perform the following steps:

VMware itself recommends open-vm-tools for Ubuntu.

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