Perfectly solves the problem of gray and unclickable installation of VMware Tools on virtual machines

VMware Tools is an enhanced tool that comes with VMware virtual machines. Only when VMware Tools is installed can file sharing between the host and the virtual machine be realized. But the user opens the virtual machine and finds that the option to install VMware Tools is grayed out. What's going on? The editor has compiled two solutions below, let’s take a look.

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If the virtual machine has a network, then everything will become very simple, you can install it directly online.

1. Update the software source list

imaginemiracle@Linux-IM:~$ sudo apt-get update

2. Update the software

imaginemiracle@Linux-IM:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade

3. Download and install open-vm- tools-desktop

imaginemiracle@Linux-IM:~$ sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop -y

At this step you will find that your virtual machine can freely scale the interface. Problem solved!

Method 2: Manually install VMware Tools offline

1. Click [Virtual Machine] > [Settings].

2. Select [CD/DVD (SATA)]

[Note]: It should be noted that there are usually two CD/DVDs here. Do not choose the one with a number in the suffix, that is, DVD 2.

3. Click the [Browse] button under [Use ISO Image File], open the installation directory of VMware Workstation in the file directory, enter it, select the linux.iso image file, then save the settings and start the virtual machine.

4. Install VMware Tools

After the above steps, you can already see that a disk called VMware Tools is mounted.

If there is nothing here, check if there is a CD/DVD that is not connected in the lower right corner, right-click and select Connect.

4.1. Open the directory where VMware Tools is located

Directly left-click to open VMware Tools on the desktop, right-click on the entered file interface and select Open in Terminal.

4.2. Copy and decompress the VMware Tools compressed package

Copy the compressed package and decompress it.

4.3. Run the installation program

Enter the unzipped directory and run the vmware-install.pl file. It should be noted that running this file requires super permissions, that is, just add sudo in front, and then yes all the way Press Enter and the installation is complete.

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