Install VMware Tools - martikainen87/Home-Automation GitHub Wiki

Link to VMware documentation: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022525

Right click the Virtual Machine -> Guest -> Install/Upgrade VMware Tools

Press OK

Login to your server via SSH (Kitty), you can find the IP in the "Summary View" of the VM

run this command to mount the CD-ROM image we just mounted to the VM

Run this command to create a directory to mount the CD-ROM:

sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom

Run this command to mount the CD-ROM:

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 

Could also be "sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom" in some cases

Check what the filename is for the VMware tools archive.

ls /mnt/cdrom

Run this command to extract the contents of the VMware Tools bundle, edit the command to match the archive name, you can type VMwareTools and hit "tab" and get the full name

tar xzvf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-xxxx.tar.gz -C /tmp/

Run this command to change directories into the VMware Tools distribution:

cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/

Run this command to install VMware Tools:

sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d

Run this command to reboot the virtual machine after the installation completes:

sudo reboot