How to install VMware Tools under a VMware Virtual Machine

How to install VMware Tools under a VMware Virtual Machine

1. Choose VM> setting from the menu bar, select CD/DVD, click use ISO image file on the right, and select Linux. ISO in the VMware installation folder as the image path. 2. Choose VM> install VMware Tools on the menu bar. The VMware Tools Folder is displayed, with a compressed package vmwarw.ls-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz. 3. Create a temp folder in the desktop home folder and right-click the compressed package to copy it here. 4. Create a terminal and enter CD temp Tar xzvf VMwareTools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz After decompression CD vmware-tools-distrib Then run the file with the root user, that is, input sudo./vmware-install.pl Note: many materials on the Internet do not have the sudo font in red, so they cannot be executed. 5. Start installation. If no yes prompt is displayed, press Enter. If yes is displayed, enter Yes. Follow the prompts to install the SDK step by step. NOTE: For the first time, yes will take a long time. Don't think it is stuck. 6. Until enjoy VMware appears 7. OK. The installation is complete. Restart and enter sudo reboot. 8. Congratulations. After the installation, you can move the mouse freely between the virtual machine and the window, and the mouse movement in the virtual machine is smoother. 9. Open VM-> setting, select shared folders under options, click always enable, and add A folder shared by the Windows hard disk. The shared folder is found under filesystem MNT/HGFS /.