Linux – VMWARE – Why can’t I find the vmware-tools ISO for linux guest

There is no GUI interface called vmware-toolbox with vmware player 5 (and other newer products), as per Installing and Configuring VMware Tools:

The graphical user interface for VMware Tools, which is sometimes called the VMware Tools control panel and which is available from the notification area in the guest operating system, has been deprecated

You can however find settings for the toolbox, say "Update automatically", in the graphical user interface of the VMWare Player on the host (as in Player -> Manage -> Virtual Machine Settings -> Options -> VMware Tools).

As for "vmware-toolbox-cmd doesn't do anything"? You bet it does, read the doc above.

In Kali Linux 2016 you have to install open-vm-tools instead of vmware-guest-tools.

To have drag and drop, copy and paste and screen resolution working correctly you need to follow these steps:

1. Add the Kali 2016 repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list:

   deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
   

2. Run these commands:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop fuse
   reboot