(This assumes you already had an i3 configuration file created).

If you use i3 as a window manager, go to the i3 config at ~/.config/i3/config and add the following line at the end. Reboot your computer and copy/paste should work with the default window manager. Run this command to install VMware Tools:įollow the prompts to install. Extract the VMware Tools tar to the Desktop and follow the below commands. If you didn't have open-vm-tools, you can skip to this step.Ĭlick on Virtual Machine > Install / Update / Reinstall VMware Tools. Then, after your computer reboots, you can install the VMware tools. Sudo apt- get purge -auto-remove open-vm-tools Sudo apt- get remove -auto-remove open-vm-tools Installing Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine Installing VMware Tools VMware is well known and has a reputation for ease of use. If you do have it installed, uninstall it. If it’s not installed, then first make sure you don’t have the open-vm-tools installed. Installing VMware toolsįirst, make sure you have VMware tools installed. I’ve had some trouble making my copy/paste work on a Ubuntu VM and hopefully it will help someone. To install VMware Workstation on Ubuntu 22.04, visit the Official VMWare download Page and download the installation bundle as indicated below. In order to do this, our VM needs to have access to the internet to be able to download the packages from the configured repositories.This is a bit of a miscellaneous post. In the following steps, we will install open-vm-tools for Ubuntu from the command line. More recently, VMware has been encouraging Operating System vendors and communities to develop their own version of the VMware tools, which are known as the “open-vm-tools.” The VMware Tools (VMware ISO) installations for most Operating Systems are now described as “deprecated”. In the “Old Days,” the norm was to mount an ISO provided by VMware and install their version of the VMware Tools.

Most every Virtual Machine needs to have some sort of VMware Tools running. John Borhek How to guides, Linux, Operating Systems, Ubuntu, VMware vSphere October 6, 2015

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