It is convenient to install one or two virtual machines on one's own computer for learning cross-platform and cross-system technologies. VMware is one of the commonly used virtual machine software. Among them, VMware Workstation is a fee-based version, which is more powerful and comprehensive; but if you play locally, you can use free VMware Player for non-commercial purposes, which is enough. VMware Tools are programs that enhance the performance of virtual machines. When using VMware Player, prompt updates will occur.

root@ubuntu:~# mount | grep cdrom
root@ubuntu:~# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
root@ubuntu:~# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
root@ubuntu:~# ls /mnt/cdrom/
manifest.txt  run_upgrader.sh  VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz  vmware-tools-upgrader-32  vmware-tools-upgrader-64
root@ubuntu:~# tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz 
root@ubuntu:~# ls
backup       c                 java                        python      vmware-tools-distrib  Template Picture Download Desktop
benchmarker  examples.desktop  pycharm-community-2017.1.3  tpcc-mysql  Public                Video Document Music
root@ubuntu:~# umount /dev/cdrom
root@ubuntu:~# cd vmware-tools-distrib/ ; ls
bin  caf  doc  etc  FILES  INSTALL  installer  lib  vgauth  vmware-install.pl
root@ubuntu:~/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl
open-vm-tools packages are available from the OS vendor and VMware recommends 
using open-vm-tools packages. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803 for more 
information.

***** This part of the crazy print output has been omitted; however, you need to manually press Enter and other operations to run the configuration. *****

To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and 
file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
2. Log out and log back into your desktop session
3. Restart your X session.

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

Found VMware Tools CDROM mounted at /media/student/VMware Tools. Ejecting 
device /dev/sr0 ...

It would have been a great success to be here. "Open-vm-tools packages are available from the OS vendor and VMware recommendations"
using open-vm-tools packages, the original operating system provides a better and more recommended package called "open-vm-tools", which of course uses the recommended program to install.

root@ubuntu:~# apt-cache search open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools - Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
open-vm-tools-dev - Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (development)
open-vm-tools-desktop - Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (GUI)
open-vm-tools-dkms - Open VMware Tools vmxnet kernel module (deprecated)
root@ubuntu:~# ls /usr/bin/ | grep vmware
vmware-config-tools.pl
vmwarectrl
vmware-guestproxycerttool
vmware-hgfsclient
vmware-toolbox-cmd
vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
vmware-user
vmware-xferlogs
root@ubuntu:~# vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.

Stopping services for VMware Tools



File /etc/vmware-caf/pme/config/cafenv-appconfig is backed up to 
/etc/vmware-caf/pme/config/cafenv-appconfig.old.0.

This program previously created the directory /usr/lib/vmware-caf/pme/lib, and 
was about to remove it. Since there are files in that directory that this 
program did not create, it will not be removed.

File /etc/pulse/default.pa is backed up to /etc/pulse/default.pa.old.1.

The removal of VMware Tools 10.1.6 build-5214329 for Linux completed 
successfully.  Thank you for having tried this software.

root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop