Manually Install VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine

process
On the host, select Virtual Machine> Install VMware Tools from the Workstation Pro menu bar.
If an earlier version of VMware Tools is installed, the menu item is Update VMware Tools.
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In the virtual machine, open a terminal window.
Run the mount command without parameters to determine whether the Linux distribution has automatically mounted the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image. If a CD-ROM device is mounted, the CD-ROM device and its mount point will be listed in a form similar to the following output:
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
 
If the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image is not mounted, mount the CD-ROM drive.
If the mount point directory does not yet exist, create it.
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
 
Some Linux distributions use different mount point names. For example, the mount point of some distributions is /media/VMware Tools instead of /mnt/cdrom. Modify the command to reflect the conventions used by your distribution.
Mount the CD-ROM drive.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the /dev directory in different ways. If the CD-ROM drive is not /dev/cdrom, or if the mount point of the CD-ROM is not /mnt/cdrom, please modify this command to reflect the conventions used by your distribution.

Go to the working directory, for example /tmp.
cd /tmp
 
(Optional) Before installing VMware Tools, delete any previous vmware-tools-distrib directories.
The location of this directory depends on the location specified during the previous installation. Normally, this directory is located in /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.

List the contents of the mount point directory and note the file name of the VMware Tools tar installer.
is mount-point

Unzip the installer.
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz
The value x.x.x is the product version number, and yyyy is the internal version number of the product version.

If necessary, unmount the CD-ROM image.
umount /dev/cdrom
If the Linux distribution has automatically mounted the CD-ROM, you do not need to uninstall the image.

Run the installer and configure VMware Tools as the root user.
cd vmware-tools-distrib sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Usually, after the installer file finishes running, the vmware-config-tools.pl configuration file will be run. If you try to perform a tar installation based on an RPM installation, or perform an RPM installation based on a tar installation, the installer will detect the previous installation and must convert the installer database format before proceeding.