Detailed installation process and use of VMware Tools (ubuntu)

Detailed installation process and use of VMware Tools (ubuntu)

Some time ago, the blogger installed the Ubuntu system on the vmwarevm. If you have not installed the Ubuntu system, refer to the previous article by the blogger: Detailed installation process of VMware Ubuntu.

Yuanyou knows that linux is not easy to use. If you want to put files or installation packages on Windows on your host on a virtual machine, VMware Tools is an essential tool.

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The following describes how to install VMware Tools.

1. Open the Virtual Machine VMware Workstation and start the Ubuntu system. On the menu bar-Virtual Machine-install VMware Tools. If you do not start the Ubuntu system, you cannot click the "Install VMware Tools" option, for example:

2. If the following dialog box is displayed, click yes:

3. Now, you will find VMware Tools added to the virtual machine device. Click it and there is a VMwareTools... Tar.gz file: <喎?http: www.bkjia.com kf ware vc " target="_blank" class="keylink"> Vc3ryb25np1_vcd4ncjxwpjxpbwcgywx0pq = "here write picture description" src = "http://www.bkjia.com/uploads/allimg/160126/04042I341-4.png" title = "\"/>

4. Next, we will take the VMwareTools... The tar.gz file is extracted to a directory. For example, the blogger extracts the file to the myfile directory just created on the desktop:

5. After extraction, you will find that there is an additional vmware-tools-distrib folder in myfile on the desktop. This is exactly what we need to install soon:

6. Press Ctrl + Alt + T to start the command box and switch to the root user (switch command: sudo su, press enter and you will be prompted to enter the password of the current login user, enter the root user after successful input ):

7. Then we enter the extracted vmware-tools-distrib folder as the root user, then enter the command:./vmware-install.pl, and then press enter, such:

8. After the preceding operations, install VMware Tools. Enter yes/no according to the prompts until Enjoy appears.-the VMware team, for example, indicates that the installation is successful, then manually restart the VM:

9. After restarting the virtual machine, we found that the menu bar-Virtual Machine-VMware Tools installation was changed to "reinstall", which also indicates that VMware Tools has been installed successfully:

10. After VMware Tools is installed, you can drag and drop the VM and host to upload files: