{"id":779,"date":"2025-02-19T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=779"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:34:46","slug":"install-vmware-tools-in-vmware-player-linux-ubuntu-pop_os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Install VMWare tools in VMWare Player &#8211; Linux (Ubuntu \/ POP_OS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Just a quick video on how to install the VMWare tools in VMWare Player.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> I received the below error trying to go into full screen mode and then trying to install the tools from the URL provided as per the error produced:<br \/><br \/>&#8220;VMware Tools is no longer shipped with VMWare Player for legacy guest operating systems.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>To install the tools run the below from a terminal:<br \/><br \/><em>sudo apt install open-vm-tools<\/em><br \/><em> sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop<\/em><br \/><br \/>You should now be able to go in to full screen in your VM and use the other functionality provided by the VMWare Tools. Below is a quick video I made to show the process.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Install VMWare tools in VMWare Player - Linux (Ubuntu \/ POP_OS)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pPe6qOudbZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick video on how to install the VMWare tools in VMWare Player. I received the below error trying to go into full screen mode and then trying to install the tools from the URL provided as per the error produced: &#8220;VMware Tools is no longer shipped with VMWare Player for legacy guest operating systems.&#8221; To install the tools run the below from a terminal: sudo apt install open-vm-tools sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop You should now be able to go in to full screen in your VM and use the other functionality provided by the VMWare Tools. Below is a quick video I made to show the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,631,624],"tags":[632,635,634,633],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-vmware-player","category-vmware-workstation","tag-install-vmware-tools-in-vmware-player-linux","tag-vmware-player","tag-vmware-tools","tag-vmware-tools-is-no-longer-shipped-with-vmware-player-for-legacy-guest-operating-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}