VMware: Installation Tools

Install open-vm-tools package

sudo apt-get install -y open-vm-tools

# Ubuntu Offline install
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libd/libdumbnet/libdumbnet1_1.12-7_amd64.deb
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libm/libmspack/libmspack0_0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb
scp *.deb :/tmp/
ssh  dpkg -i /tmp/open-vm-tools_*_amd64.deb /tmp/libdumbnet*_amd64.deb /tmp/libmspack0_*_amd64.deb

# FreeBSD

pkg install open-vm-tools-nox11

# /etc/rc.conf

vmware_guest_vmblock_enable="YES"
vmware_guest_vmhgfs_enable="NO"
vmware_guest_vmmemctl_enable="YES"
vmware_guest_vmxnet_enable="YES"
vmware_guestd_enable="YES"

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd enabled
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd start

VMware image (when open-vm-tools not available)
https://packages.vmware.com/tools/index.html

# Actions > Guest OS > Upgrade VMware Tools > Interactive Upgrade > Upgrade

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
tar -C /tmp -xzf /mnt/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
umount /mnt

/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl -default

rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib

# FreeBSD

https://my.vmware.com/de/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VMTOOLS1015&productId=614