VMware Tools for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Prerequisites
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (arm64) installed as a Virtual Machine on ESXi-Arm Fling.
Ubuntu Download: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm
ESXi Arm Edition: https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition
open-vm-tools Documentation: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

Installation

1. Open a Terminal or connect with SSH to your Ubuntu.

2. Install tools and libraries that are required to build open-vm-tools.

   # apt install -y git automake make gobjc++ libtool pkg-config libmspack-dev libglib2.0-dev libpam0g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxtst-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev

3. Clone VMware's official open-vm-tools repository from GitHub.

   # git clone    // 国内 https://gitee.com/koomox/open-vm-tools 
   # cd open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/

4. Compile open-vm-tools.

   # autoreconf -i
   # ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
   # make
   # make install
   # ldconfig

5. Create a unit file. The file is required to run vmtoolsd as service with systemd.

   # cat > /etc/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service << EOF
   [Unit]
   Description=Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware
   Documentation=   https://gitee.com/koomox/open-vm-tools 
   After=network-online.target
   
   [Service]
   ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
   Restart=always
   TimeoutStopSec=5
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   EOF

6. Enable and start the open-vm-tools service.

   # systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service
   # systemctl start vmtoolsd.service

7. Verify that open-vm-tools are running

   # systemctl status vmtoolsd.service

   

You should now see that VMware Tools are running in the vSphere Client.