How to mannuly configure vmtools in VM-Ware?
After install the latest version of Ubuntu(15.04) in VM-Ware, the vm-tools failed to install automatically, I wrote down the instructions I followed to get the tool working.
- In a working copy of a installed linux vm, select "Install Vmtools" options
in VM, which will mount the latest version of vmtools;
- Copy the files to the newly installed machine, in this case (Ubuntu 15.04);
- Extract and execute the installation script;
- Configure the shared folders:
4.1 sudo apt-get install open-vm-dkms; (if this command failed to install the target package, use software center to search that package); 4.2 Add the following line to the /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools file:
| sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs |