How to install open VM tools on Ubuntu 14.04
VMware KB https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2075048 To obtain and import the VMware Packaging Public Keys: Create a directory on the virtual machine to store the VMware Packaging Public Keys. Download all the VMware Public Packaging Public Key files from the https://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys directory. Save the files to the directory you created. For each key that you download, run this command to import the key: $ sudo apt-key add / key_path / key_name Where key_path is the directory in which you saved the keys and key_name is the file name of a key. Create the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vmware-tools.list with this content: deb https://packages.vmware.com/packages/ubuntu precise main To install the package, run this command: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-deploypkg