- Open VMware VSphere client and login to the VMware ESXI server
- Right click specific VM and click guest and install/Upgrade VMware tools. This will load the vmware tool in your virtual cd rom
- mount your cd rom to you Ubuntu directory
#sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
Note: if /media/cdrom is not created, create one with #sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom
- got to the directory with #cd /media/cdrom
- copy the package to temporary folder with #sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp
- unmount the iso package with #sudo umount /media/cdrom
- go to the temp folder with #cd /tmp
- extract the package with #sudo tar xzvf VM*.tar.gz
- enter into vmware-tools-distrib directory with #cd vmware-tools-distrib
- run the installer script with #sudo ./vmware-install.pl –d
- At last restart your system with #sudo reboot
Now you have successfully installed VMware tools in your virtual Ubuntu Operating system