Is it possible to install open-vm-tools on a KDE Linux guest system in VMware? Other distros propose this package to install (or even install it automatically), but here I don’t see it anywhere.
the Arch open-vm-tools package is already pre-installed.
Is it inactive by default? If yes, how to activate it?
No idea! Being a VMware user, you’re the person who’s in the right position to figure that one out. 
I do see that it pre-installs some Systemd services in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ which we’re probably not turning on by default (and it needs investigating whether turning them on by default would be a good idea).
Once you figure it out, be sure to let us know if there’s anything we should change!
Which particular services? Running systemctl –all does not show anything related to open-vm-tools.
I’ve found it! Not manually, but using sysd-manager, it is vmtoolsd (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service). After enabling it, at least “Autofit guest” started working. I also enabled vmware-vmblock-fuse, but I’m not sure if it is related.
PS. Even more, now KDE Linux correctly reacts to “Shut down guest” in VMware Workstation.
That’s great! Now the question is whether we should enable this service by default, or leave it for something people using VMWare VMs.
