Hi,
As @CarltonR said, nowadays you should use open vmware tools that comes from your Linux distribution repository.
One note:
@bdevay wrote:
But, the automatically attached VMware Tools is for Windows:
This normally means that you've set the guest OS for that VM in VMware Player to Windows, so it does not match your guest OS actual operating system.
VMware player will use the vmware tools ISO that matches the configured guest OS.
edit: Somehow the above isn't true. I forgot you attached the vmware.log files and looked at them after writing this reply.
It has this line:
2021-12-17T07:07:23.778Z In(05) vmx DICT guestOS = "ubuntu-64"
So there goes my theory.
Also the crash that triggered was because of the graphics backend crashing, not because of shared folders.
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Wil
