Installing VMware Tools for Arch based distros
by Awesome Geek in Arch, Linux, VMware 0
- Login as root
su
- Update your system
pacman -Syu
- Install VMware tools
pacman -S open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-modules
- Enable VMware tools
systemctl start vmtoolsd systemctl enable vmtoolsd cat /proc/version > /etc/arch-release
- Install Mouse and Display Integration
pacman -S xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-video-vmware svga-dri
- Open following file to configure it
vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-gpudriver.conf
Insert following lineSection "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "vmware" EndSection
- Get Enabled Copy & Paste between Host and Guest
pacman -S gtkmm
- Exit from root and then enable the VMware-Tools Integration
exit vmware-user-suid-wrapper
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