
This guide explains the steps you need to follow in order to proceed with installing them. The following packages have unmet dependencies:Į: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.VMware Tools improve the performance of a virtual machine and enable many of its simple features to be used in VMware products. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstableĭistribution that some required packages have not yet been created The "Reinstall VMWare Tools." is also greyed out on my licensed VMWare Workstation 15.5Įdit: additionally I tried this answer and now I have removed open-vm-tools but sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop fuse is not working, saying I have broken packages: Reading package lists. The weirdest thing is, sometimes copy/paste into and out of the VM work and then seemingly randomly it stops, that's the real root issue here if anyone knows what's ultimately wrong. I've found solutions to restart VM tools with $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools startīut I don't have any of that in my init.d. Open-vm-tools/kali-rolling,now 2:12.0.0-2 amd64 īut if I look at processes running with ps ax | grep vm it doesn't look to be running 198 ? S 0:17 Ģ31502 ? Sl 0:01 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr -blockFd 3Ģ37989 ? Ssl 0:00 vmware-vmblock-fuse /run/vmblock-fuse -o rw,subtype=vmware-vmblock,default_permissions,allow_other,dev,suidĢ47062 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep -color=auto vm If I look at apt list -installed | grep vm I see open-vm-tools-desktop/kali-rolling,now 2:12.0.0-2 amd64 I'm trying to figure out if my VMWare tools is running and some of the solutions I found online aren't quite working.
