I tried installing everything at once and then rebooting and resizing, it didn't work for some reason, maybe because of the apt upgrade I had done before installing open-vm-tools-desktop. The above solution worked when I did that before any package upgrade.
I tried installing everything at once and then rebooting and resizing, it didn't work for some reason, maybe because of the apt upgrade I had done before installing open-vm-tools-desktop. The above solution worked when I did that before any package upgrade.