

I have tried this: a) Virtualization ON from BIOS (16. (Ubuntu Studio 20.04.1 doesn't work by default with VMware, doesn't compile, but that is a different issue.) I have not tried an older Ubuntu version at this time, but only this 20.04.1 with current updates. I have a theoretically identical i7/Asus/16GB workstation with Windows 10 and there everything works normally (when driving the same VM from USB-3, external SATA-disk, or otherwise). I have used VMware for 15+ years both on Ubuntu and Windows and this isn't something trivial like too little RAM or a slow disk (it can be something else, which somebody takes for trivial, like compiling not with defaults) (This assumes you already had an i3 configuration file created).I have several Windows VMs, one of Win10 brand new VM for test, which starts, but it takes ages to get a login screen - practically speaking VMs cannot be used at all.

If you use i3 as a window manager, go to the i3 config at ~/.config/i3/config and add the following line at the end.


Reboot your computer and copy/paste should work with the default window manager. Run this command to install VMware Tools:įollow the prompts to install. Extract the VMware Tools tar to the Desktop and follow the below commands. If you didn't have open-vm-tools, you can skip to this step.Ĭlick on Virtual Machine > Install / Update / Reinstall VMware Tools. Then, after your computer reboots, you can install the VMware tools. Sudo apt- get purge -auto-remove open-vm-tools To install Ubuntu 22. Sudo apt- get remove -auto-remove open-vm-tools We are providing you virtual images for updated version of Ubuntu 20.04.4 Focal Fossa flavors for VirtualBox and VMware. If you do have it installed, uninstall it. If it’s not installed, then first make sure you don’t have the open-vm-tools installed. Installing VMware toolsįirst, make sure you have VMware tools installed. I’ve had some trouble making my copy/paste work on a Ubuntu VM and hopefully it will help someone.
