Virtual machine replication issues: How to troubleshoot "Unable to manually start the VMware Tools Installation" issue

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Environment Description:

• VMware Workstation
• Ubuntu system

Problem Description:

For learning or work purposes, we often need to install VMware Tools in virtual machine VMware to enable file sharing between hosts and VMS, free file drag and drop, free movement of the mouse between virtual machines and hosts, full screen functionality for virtual systems, but manual installation of VMware The Tools process often prompts you to " fail to start VMware Tools manually while you are doing a simple installation." This article will take the virtual machine Ubuntu system as an example to explain how to resolve this issue.

Problem solving:

First step: Find the VMware Tools installation package

　　The VMware Tools installation packages for Windows and Linux are available in the installation directory of VMware Workstation, and VMware Tools will be required to use the virtual CD The tools installation package is loaded into the virtual machine system.

　　

Step Two: Virtual CD-ROM loading VMware Tools installation Package

　　Add a CD/DVD hardware to the virtual machine settings, ISO image file Select the VMware installation directory in the previous introduction, Linux version of the VMware Tools installation package, such as D:\VMware\VMware workstation\programs\ Linux.iso (if you are prompted for an error, turn off the virtual machine and set the path before you start Ubuntu).

　　

Step three: open the VMware Tool

　　Virtual CD-ROM after loading the VMware Tools installation package will display a VMware Tools folder on the desktop of the Ubuntu system, in effect the Linux.iso installation package that we loaded earlier. You need to open the VMware Tools folder here. The list of files to be displayed after opening.

　　

Fourth step: Copy to the desktop and unzip the VMware tool installation file to the desktop

　　Unzip the. tar.gz suffix file to desktop, regardless of the version number of the Linux VMware Tools installation package, extracted to the desktop must be a Vmware-tools-distrib folder to enter the directory.

Fifth step: Open terminal Command

　　After you double-click into the Vmware-tools-distrib directory, right-select the Ubuntu terminal (open in Terminal) and proceed with the installation as a command line.

Sixth step: Get root Administrator privileges

　　Ubuntu defaults to disabling root permissions, so the first step in the installation is to get root permissions first. In the terminal input command sudo su, enter the current user password after entering the root permission,.

Seventh Step: Install the command

　　Executes the install command./vmware-install.pl and enter, the system will ask you to install VMware tools in which directory, in general, only need to press ENTER to confirm (that is installed in the default directory), there is a question of yes or no directly enter the Yes command to indicate the endorsement action.

　　

Eighth Step: Complete the installation

　　All the way back and yes command after the system performs the default location installation, after more than a minute to prompt "The configuration of VMware Tools ... completely successfully", to this "in the simple installation, Unable to manually start the VMware Tools issue successfully resolved, restart the system.

　　

Nineth Step: Test

　　Select some text, right-click Copy, paste on native or native copy content to paste into terminal.

Virtual machine replication issues: How to troubleshoot "Unable to manually start the VMware Tools Installation" issue