Restart vmware tools

Question

Sometimes my Ubuntu virtual machine looses copy/paste from windows host functionality. I'm too lazy restart whole machine. How to restart just vmware tools?

Answer 1

This worked for me when the resolution of my Ubuntu 18.10 VM wasn't updating automatically:

sudo systemctl restart open-vm-tools

I'm using open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-desktop 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu3.

Answer 2

It should generally be fixed by restarting:

sudo systemctl restart open-vm-tools

but sometimes the work is more complicated and you have to reinstall ref

sudo apt remove open-vm-tools
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install open-vm-tools
sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop
sudo reboot

Install from host link. for more detail see vmware docs