VMWare Tools : Not Running

In VMWare vSphere Client you will see the following errors.

VMWare Tools : Not Running  ( Not Installed)

We can easily fix this issue by installing open-vm-tools package in linux machine.

root@testing:/home/ubuntu# apt-get install open-vm-tools

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdumbnet1 libicu52 zerofree
Suggested packages:
  open-vm-tools-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdumbnet1 libicu52 open-vm-tools zerofree
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 218 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,237 kB of archives.
After this operation, 30.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

After installing this package you can see your IP address and MAC address using this vmware tool.