virtual machine VMware Tools What if the option is gray and cannot be opened ？

This problem should be very common , Here's the picture ：

The solution is simple , Turn on the virtual machine's " Set up ".

Add new “CD/DVD Driver ”


choice " Use ISO Image file "：

This file is in Vmware There should be an installation directory for ！ That is to say, in the figure below “linux.iso” file , Select and open

Now enter the system desktop , Open file , It can be found that there is already “Vmware Tools” La ~

install Vmware Tools

Click on “Vmware Tools”, You can find the compressed package in the figure below

Copy the compressed package in the above figure to the desktop （ Decompressing directly here will report an error , I don't know why ）, You can use the following command to copy

[[email protected] VMware Tools]$ cp VMwareTools-10.3.21-14772444.tar.gz  /home/lucky/Desktop/VMwareTools-10.3.21-14772444.tar.gz

Use the following command to unzip

tar -zxvf VMwareTools-10.3.21-14772444.tar.gz

You can see that there is an extra folder on the desktop ：

Enter the extracted folder , View the files in the current folder

[[email protected] Desktop]$ cd vmware-tools-distrib/
[[email protected] vmware-tools-distrib]$ ls
bin  caf  doc  etc  FILES  INSTALL  installer  lib  vgauth  vmware-install.pl

Execute the executable file under the folder

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

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In addition to the following figure , choice yes

The following figure means that the installation is successful ！

Last , Restart the system ！

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If there is a problem with the installation, please leave a message , update ！
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