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On Windows10 host and Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS guest with only open-vm-tools*** packages installed and kernel 4.8.0-34-generic, the same problem was solved by the fix from @drolevar
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On Windows10 host and Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS guest with only open-vm-tools*** packages installed and kernel 4.8.0-34-generic, the same problem was solved by the fix from @drolevar