Install Ubuntu under VMware, you must install Vmware-tools for a better experience, including screen resolution, sound, and Windows shared Clipboard, and more

To install Ubuntu under VMware, you must install Vmware-tools for a better experience, including screen resolution, sound, and Windows shared Clipboard, and more.

Personal feel the installation of Vmware-tools is very important points:

1, switch no longer ctrl+alr.

2, the virtual machine and the host can directly copy and paste things, it is said that the Clipboard share.

3, the host to the virtual machine to share files, no longer with FTP, or through the chat software transfer files, no more local area network, directly in the virtual machine to add a shared directory, and then access the Hgfs folder in the Mnt folder on the virtual machine out.

Here's a detailed description of how to install the Virtual Machine tools VMware tool in Ubuntu?

Preparation before installation:

1, must first install build-essential software, otherwise can not be installed smoothly
Command: sudo apt-get install build-essential
2, to install the Linux-headers package, the package to be installed before the configuration Vmware-tools, that can be installed vmware-tools before the installation, or after the successful installation of the Vmware-tools configuration before the install, otherwise you will not be prompted to find the C header files, which asks you to specify the path. But this linux-headers package to match the version of Ubuntu you downloaded, you can use the command: Uname-a to see your installed version,
For example, my view results are: Linux ubuntu 2.6.15-26-386, then run the command:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386
The installation result is a package that matches the kernel I'm running.

(Because installing VMware Tools requires recompiling the module for the new kernel, you must first install the basic compilation system and kernel header files.)
Code:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-' uname-r '

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3, if you do not configure the installation of a friend can run its profile to start the configuration process, I installed 1 and 22 after the package or I ran into C header files could not find the request I specify the path of the prompt, I looked carefully and found that the default path is different from the path of the linux-headers that I installed, so I can continue the configuration process as soon as I write out the new path.

After the more smooth, ask you to specify the resolution, and so on, as long as the installation of reminders can be done, configure the restart of VMware is good.

Installation steps:

First, click on the VMware menu-vm-install VMware Tools (virtual machine-load vmwaretool tools)

At this point, the installation CD image of the Linux version of VMware Tools is automatically loaded under Ubuntu. You'll see a disc icon called VMware Tools appears on the virtual machine's desktop and is automatically opened. This includes two files of vmwaretools-xxx-i386.rpm and vmwaretools-xxx.tar.gz.

Install Ubuntu under VMware, you must install Vmware-tools for a better experience, including screen resolution, sound, and Windows shared Clipboard, and more