Learn about VMware Tools

Learn about VMware Tools

VMware Tools is a virtual machine VMware Workstation with a tool that enables users to drag files directly from a physical host to a virtual machine. If we do not install it, we are unable to carry out the transfer of files between the virtual machine and the physical machine, of course, it is more effective than this, usually when we operate the virtual machine, between the physical machine and the virtual machine must use the CTRL switch, if after installation we do not have to use the keyboard switch, directly can exit, So that virtual machines are truly part of the computer, how should this magical VMware tools be installed?

1, first open the virtual machine, then click on the virtual machine option, click Install Vmtools, if it has been installed, will display reinstall (as shown, if this word appears to prove that you have successfully installed Vmtools). If it is not installed, click Install.

2, then we can see the vmtools words in the CD-ROM drive, click Open, find the Vmtools installation package, Under the Linux operating system suffix named tar.gz, we can directly decompress (some Linux system support, such as the Fedora used in small series), can also be extracted using terminal commands.

3, then we need to enter the terminal to install, before the installation, we need to replace the operating user, the default access to the system is a normal user (in Fedora, for example), but it does not have the permissions to install, so we need to switch to the root user to install, using the SU command to complete the switch.

4, after the switch is complete, we open the extracted Vmtools folder, find vmware-install.pl this file, and then perform the installation. One thing to note is that the Perl module is needed to support the use of vmware-install.pl, and it seems that Fedora is not installed by default, and we can install Perl using Yum install Perl.

5, at this point, the installation is OK.

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Learn about VMware Tools