{"id":19140,"date":"2022-03-03T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=19140"},"modified":"2022-03-03T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:58:04","slug":"vmware-workstation-pro-linux-gast-installation-vmware-tools-greyed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/19140\/vmware-workstation-pro-linux-gast-installation-vmware-tools-greyed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare Workstation Pro: Linux Gast Installation Vmware Tools greyed out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Install Vmware Tools&#8221; is grayed out for Linux guests.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Normally, Vmware automatically installs the Vmware Tools in Linux. If this is not the case or if you want to install them again, the corresponding option in the menu may be grayed out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"443\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_1.png 298w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_1-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, this function also only puts a virtual CD in the virtual drive. Therefore, we can also do this manually via the virtual machine settings.<\/p>\n<p>Here we insert the &#8220;linux.iso&#8221; file from the VMWare directory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_2.png 834w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_2-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_2-768x439.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, this is available in Linux and is mounted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"957\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_3.png 957w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_3-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_tools_linux_3-768x317.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We can now run the installation via the terminal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_linux_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"192\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_linux_4.png 693w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vmware_linux_4-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Install Vmware Tools&#8221; is grayed out for Linux guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}