Installing VMware Tools on a virtual machine is the quickest way to improve guest performance and enable guest-integration features — better video/mouse behavior, shared clipboard/drag-and-drop, improved network/video drivers, time sync, and quiesced snapshots — but you should pick the right install method for the guest OS and tool version (and consider whether to enable automatic upgrades in vCenter). Common approaches covered in the article include using VMware Workstation’s Install VMware Tools wizard for Windows, mounting the VMware Tools ISO and running vmware-install.pl for Ubuntu/Linux, using vCenter’s automatic tools upgrade, and basic verification/uninstall commands; this post explains the options, useful commands, FAQs and some DR/backup context (steps are not repeated here).
Read the original: How to Install VMware Tools on Windows/Linux VM?
Full steps and explanation: [https://www.vinchin.com/vm-tips/install-vmware-tools-windows-linux-ubuntu.html]
