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• Fedora 19 and later releases

• Debian 7.x and later releases

• openSUSE 11.x and later releases

• Recent Ubuntu releases (12.04 LTS, 13.10 and later)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and later releases

• CentOS 7.0 and later releases

• Oracle Linux 7.0 and later releases

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 and later releases

• FreeBSD 10.0 and later releases

Step-by-step guide

1. Uninstall current version of VMware Tools. For instructions follow this VMware KB Article 

2. Install Open VM Tools (open-vm-tools) via the OS package manager or by following Guest Operating System Installation Guide. Examples:

   1. Ubuntu/Debian

      Code Block
      apt install open-vm-tools

   2. FreeBSD

      Code Block
      pkg install open-vm-tools-nox11

   3. PhotonOS

      Code Block
      tdnf install -y open-vm-tools

   4. RedHat/CentOS/AlmaLinux/RockyLinux

      Code Block
      # install yum -y install open-vm-tools # start systemctl start vmtoolsd.service # enable systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service

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