VMware Tools is the package that is meant to enhance the functionality of the Virtual machines running on Vmware Workstation Player or fusion. Now, What functions we will get from VMware Tools? It is just the same as we have VirtualBox Guest Additions for Oracle VBox. Therefore, if you are also using Ubuntu on a VMware workstation player and want to install VMWare Tools on it, here is the tutorial on that. Well, if you leave the KVM aside then between VirtualBox and VMware, the performance I got while using Ubuntu 20.04 on Vmware Player was much faster than the VirtualBox.

As we know, we have only a couple of Type-2 virtualization platforms to run on our OS which Vmware Player, VirtualBox, and KVM are the best options. VMware is one of the oldest entities that deal with Virtualization technology and stability with the performance of Vmware Workstation Player on Windows and Linux OS proof of that.

Learn how you can enable VMWare tools on its hypervisor for not only Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux but also for previous versions such as Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04, 16.04, including Linux Mint, Debian, Elementary OS, and more…

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