

ifconfig command is not installed for the recent versions of these distributions. Where all extracted files will be put into directory named vmware-tools-distrib Install Ifconfigįor Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Kali distributions vmware tools have dependency for ifconfig command. Then we will extract the archive with the tar command like below. Where cdrom is located at media $ cp /media/ismail/VMware\ Tools/VMwareTools-10.1. So we will copy the files from cdrom to our desktop with the following command.

We need to extract the tools which is in a tar.gz archive. Mount Tool ISO into VM Copy and Extract VMwareTools-10.1. To Desktop In this example we will mount from a VMware Workstation from VM -> Update VM Tools menu like below. VMware tools file or iso is provided over internet or with the VMware products like Workstations, Esxi etc. In this tutorial we will look how to install these tools into Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali but this will work for Fedora, CentOS, RHEL too. VMware provides some tools to make virtualization experience more smooth. Especially in the desktop based virtualization it provides far more features than its competitors. VMware is one of the best virtualization company.
