The VMware preferred installation method for the use of open-vm-tools
Open-vm-tools is a set of an open source services and modules for VMware from third parties and contains utilities that enhances virtualisation, administration, management and functions of the VM in VMware environments.
1 2 | yum install -y perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel yum install -y open-vm-tools |
Bonus…For Hyper-V the following will install integration services:
1 | yum install -y hyperv-daemons |
And Ubuntu:
1 | sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop |
