VMware Tools (Ubuntu System) installation detailed process and use

Some time ago the blogger installed the Ubuntu system on the VMware virtual machine, if you have not installed the classmate can refer to a blog article: VMware Ubuntu installation detailed process.

The apes know that Linux is not very useful, and VMware tools is an essential tool if you want to place files or installation packages on your host Windows on a virtual machine.

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The following small pigeon is attached to the detailed process of VMware Tools installation.

1. Open virtual machine VMware Workstation, launch Ubuntu system, menu bar-virtual machine-install VMware Tools, do not launch Ubuntu system is not able to click "Install VMware Tools" option, such as:

2. If the following box pops up, click Yes:

3. At this point, you will find that the virtual machine device is more VMware tools, click on it, there is a vmwaretools...tar.gz file:

4, Next we extract the vmwaretools...tar.gz file into a directory, such as, Bo Master is extracted to the desktop just new myfile directory:

5, after the completion of the extraction will find the desktop myfile inside a Vmware-tools-distrib folder, this is what we will install need to use:

6, the following our shortcut key ctrl+alt+t, start the Command box, and then switch to the root user (the Switch command is: sudo su, enter and then will prompt you to enter the current login user's password, enter the success can enter the root user):

7. Then we go to the root user into the Vmware-tools-distrib folder that we just extracted, and then enter the command:./vmware-install.pl, and then carriage return, such as:

8, the above operation began to install VMware tools, according to its prompt input yes/no, until the advent of Enjoy,–the VMware team, the installation is successful, and then manually restart the virtual machine:

9. After restarting the virtual machine we found that the menu bar-virtual machine-installed VMware tools became the word "Reinstall", which also indicates that VMware Tools has been installed successfully:

10. After installing VMware Tools, the virtual machine and the host can be "dragged" to the file:

VMware Tools (Ubuntu System) installation detailed process and use