How to Install VMware Tools on Arch Linux

In this article, you are going to learn about how to Install VMware Tools on Arch Linux. It’s painful to install VMware tools on Arch Linux but hopefully, this guide will make your life easier. You get the official way to install the VMware tools but sometimes tools do not work after installing the tool in Arch Linux. So you have to install the VMware tool manually. There are many ways to install the VMware tool. I am going with this method which is 100% working. You will use this tool, Thanks to rasa has already provided us with a simple way to install the tool.

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1 Install VMware Tools

2 Conclusion

Install VMware Tools

Download and install the git File using the following commands in the terminal:

$ git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git
$ cd vmware-tools-patches
$ ./patched-open-vm-tools.sh

The above script has been provided which generally should always work, automatically invoking commands described in the following section “Quick Start” Just you have to restart the system if not working.

Note:- But if any case this method is not working then run the following commands in the terminal.

Then you need to enable vmware-vmblock-fuse systemd service for the folder sharing function:

$ sudo pacman -S asp
$ asp checkout open-vm-tools
$ cd open-vmtools/repos/community-x86_64/
$ makepkg -s --asdeps
$ sudo cp vm* /usr/lib/systemd/system
$ sudo systemctl enable vmware-vmblock-fuse
$ sudo systemctl enable vmtoolsd

Then reboot your VM

$ systemctl reboot

Try it out if it works!

Conclusion

Arch Linux is the most popular Linux distribution in hardcore Linux users. With this step-by-step tutorial, you have installed the VMware tools on arch Linux in your system. Next, you may want to look into our other guides for installing software on arch Linux or learning how to use some of its most popular commands.

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