Installing VMware Tools for Arch based distros

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  1. Login as root
     su 
  2. Update your system
     pacman -Syu 
  3. Install VMware tools
     pacman -S open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-modules 
  4. Enable VMware tools
    systemctl start vmtoolsd
    systemctl enable vmtoolsd
    cat /proc/version > /etc/arch-release 
  5. Install Mouse and Display Integration
    pacman -S xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-video-vmware svga-dri 
  6. Open following file to configure it
     vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-gpudriver.conf 
    Insert following line
    Section "Device"
            Identifier "Card0"
            Driver     "vmware"
    EndSection
    
  7. Get Enabled Copy & Paste between Host and Guest
     
    pacman -S gtkmm 
  8. Exit from root and then enable the VMware-Tools Integration
    exit 
    vmware-user-suid-wrapper
    

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