Previously used Ubuntu + Virtaulbox, recently tested vmware-workstation-9, performance over virtaulbox-4.2.x, here are the detailed steps:
1 Prepare an Ubuntu system first
- Lsb_release-a
- No LSB modules is available.
- Distributor Id:ubuntu
- Description:ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- release:16.04
2 Getting the VMWARE-WORKSTATION-12 installation package
(Https://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/file/VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle)
Select for Linux
- File vmware-workstation-full-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle
- vmware-workstation-full-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle: Data
3 Installing VMWARE-WORKSTATION-12
- chmod +x vmware-workstation-full-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle #赋予执行权限
- ./vmware-workstation-full-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle #需要root permissions
- Extracting VMware Installer...done.
Then follow the prompts to install, step by step installation, the following installation is completed after the interface
4 Creating a virtual machine
To create a new virtual machine
Specify the virtual machine operating system installation image
The installation Wizard detects that the ISO image is Windows XP, you can enter Windows key in advance, or you can skip
VMware 12 Professional perpetual license key
5a02h-au243-tzj49-gtc7k-3c61n
Ubuntu 16.04 Installation vmware-workstation-12