Vmware Tools installation + full screen + surfing the Internet (I feel I have to reinstall the system sometimes, and now I finally understand how to back up! Put that *. vmdk file backup (select Store virtual Disk as a single file in Specify disk Capacity during the first installation, the next time you install the system, select Use an existing virtual Disk when selecting a disk, especially those who work hard to configure the environment .....) www.2cto.com first, I Installed vmware workstation version 8 and Ubuntu11.10. vmware tools must be installed before sharing windows with virtual machines.
First go to the VM drop-down menu VM-> Install VMware Tools... in a dialog box, click "install". After installation, a CD icon named "VMware Tools" appears on the Linux Desktop ", then go to mnt/cdrom, copy the file named "vmwarw.ls-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz" to opt, open the "terminal", run the cd command to go to the opt folder, and enter it in the command line: tar-zxvf VMwareTools-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz press enter (for decompression)
Then run the cd command to enter the decompressed file, in the command line Input:./vmware-install.pl and then press enter, OK. After the installation is complete, you can check that there will be an additional folder named "hgfs" in the mnt folder. in this folder, you can put files to be shared between Windows and Linux, of course, you need to create a shared folder in Windows with the following settings. The name is share (VM-> setting-> options-> shared folders-> Always enabled-> Add... -> select the path of the folder to be shared ~ Www.2cto.com ps: You can install vmware tools on linux. mounting iso for installation (but to be honest, this method won't work .. run. /The vmware-install.pl displays command not found... I don't know how to solve it) to make the linux full screen installation, you can use (View-> Autosize-> Autofit Guest. To enable the virtual machine to access the Internet, you can access the Internet through (VM-> Settings-> Network Adapter-> select NAT. (But I wonder why I cannot ping the website, but I can use firefox to access the Internet =)