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I found I didn't need to install VMware Tools. Doing an apt-get of open-vm-tools, then open-vm-tools-desktop, and then restarting worked for me.
– Billy
Commented May 31, 2016 at 20:36
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Did not work for me on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit.
– Forivin
Commented Jun 9, 2016 at 7:21
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Didn't work for me either on 16.04 64 bit (server)
– Mahn
Commented Jul 10, 2016 at 17:50
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Removing open-vm-tools and rebooting destroyed my kernel and I had to reinstall the OS from scratch.
– dionyziz
Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 21:20
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Did nothing for me on Ubuntu 16.10
– Gudlaugur Egilsson
Commented May 17, 2017 at 9:51

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