Installation and Use of VMware Tools in Linux

 

Follow these steps:

Step 1: load the ISO file of VMware Tools for Linux in CD/DVD (IDE) in the Devices option of VMware Workstation, and then start the Linux system.

Step 2: You can see the optical drive icon of the VMware Tools dvd rom on the desktop of the Linux System in VMware Workstation. Double-click the icon to see a compressed file, you must extract the file, in order to execute the vmware-install.pl file. If you keep double-clicking, The vmware-install.pl is not executable. That is, the compressed package can be first decompressed to the desktop, and then in the "terminal" to execute the vmware-install.pl.

Step 3: After the reboot system is installed, you will find that the Linux system's display screen is much larger than the original one. The mouse pointer can also be smoothly transitioned between Linux and Windows systems, without the need for Ctrl + Alt keys.

Step 4: you can set a shared folder on the host. in vm/setting/Options/Share Folders, click Add on the right and select the host directory. In Linux, enter the "/mnt/hgfs" directory to view the content in windows. You can also copy files to this folder in linux and pass them to windows.

Step 5: By default, the Network Mode of the virtual system is NAT. In this case, the virtual Linux System in the VM can also access the Internet through the Windows host. The premise is that Windows allows the system host to access the Internet normally.

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