Troubleshoot Ubuntu installation VM Tools Make sure you are logged on to the client operating system. Mount the CD drive boot terminal in the client, unzip the installer using tar, and then perform vmware-insall.pl installation VMware Tools.

The following information occurs when the Ubuntu14.04 system in the virtual machine is installed to install VM Tools:
Make sure you are logged on to the client operating system. Mount the CD drive boot terminal in the client, unzip the installer using tar, and then perform vmware-insall.pl installation VMware Tools.
The following are personal solutions.
Solution steps:
1. Go to the file interface and locate the drive named "VM Tools" under "devices" on the left, go to the CD drive and find the file with the. tar.gz file name at the end.
2. Copy the end of. tar.gz files to any other folder, I directly copied to the desktop, and then the file decompression, decompression methods have two kinds, choose one: (1) Directly right click on the file, select the "Extract here" option. (2) Enter the command line interface, use the tar instruction decompression, after decompression file name is Vmware-tools-distrib.
3. Enter the command line interface, CD to Vmware-tools-distrib;
Then enter the directive: sudo./vmware-install.pl;
Then you can download VMware tools by typing in your password.

4. There will be many questions to ask in the download, just keep pressing ENTER to select the default value.
After the completion of the installation of the interface as shown in the following figure, the red circle of the word enjoy, the installation was successful.

5. Reboot the system, VMware tools to operate normally.