You can still install the GUI on the Server, but we are just going to install the Ubuntu server with VMware tools. In the Ubuntu server, we usually use CLI to manage the Server. In this blog, we will take a look at how you can install Ubuntu server 20.04 on a Vmware Workstation. That was the desktop version of Ubuntu, so what about the Server? You may need to restart the server for all changes to take affect.We have covered how you can install the ubuntu-desktop 20.04 on the VMware workstation in our last blog.
Press Enter accepting all the default options during the installation wizard.Īfter confirming the defaults for all options, VMware Tools will be installed. Step 4: Extract the VMware Tools archive and run the installer tar -zxvf VMwareTools-10.0. Note: You will need to replace the version number with the one on the mounted CD-ROM drive. Sudo cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-10.0. /tmp Step 3: Copy the ISO image to the tmp folder cd tmp Step 2: Mount the CD-ROM drive inside the Ubuntu Guest OS sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom Step 1: Connect the VMware Tools ISO to the Virtual Machines CD-ROM Drive by Clicking VM > Install VMware Tools. If for some reason you want to install VMware Tools using the ISO image, follow the steps below. How to Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu Using the ISO If for some reason the open source VMware Tools does not work as expected, you can remove the package and install it using the latest version from VMware using the steps below. That’s it, VMware Tools will now be installed. sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop
Now if you’re running VMware Tools on Ubuntu Desktop, you may also want to install the GUI package using the following command. So how do you install VMware Tools on Ubuntu?īrace yourself for some heavy reading, are you ready? sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools -y How to Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 This tutorial will show you the easiest way to install VMware Tools on Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10. You had to mount the ISO, copy the correct package to the guest OS, unzip it, and then run through the installation steps.įortunately it’s now much easier, because there is an open source package called open-vm-tools located in the official Ubuntu packages repository. Installing VMware Tools on Linux operating systems (OS) used to be harder than it is now.
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