If you have just installed Ubuntu 20.04 and tried to copy and paste into the terminal you will notice you can’t do it, the fix is you need to install VMWare tools.
In this short post I will run through the steps to install VMWare tools on Ubuntu 20.04
For this tutorial I am using VMWare workstation, and the normal way to install VMWare tools is to right click on the host and select install VMWare tools, however this is greyed out.
The easiest way is to do it via the command line
1. Update the Advanced Package Tool (APT)
Run the command:
sudo apt-get update
This will download the latest package lists from the repositories and updates them and their dependencies.
2. Install VMWare Tools
Run the command:
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop -y
3. Reboot
Final step is to reboot with the command
sudo reboot
You should now have VMWare tools installed and can do amongst other things, copy and paste into your virtual machine, should fix copy and paste not working vmware workstation.
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