Installing Ubuntu vmware-tools in a VMware12 environment

Method ①: Graphical interface installation

in general, it is divided into three steps.

Step One:

Click: Virtual machine-–> install VM tools

Then find that the desktop will jump out the following questions:

The client operating system has locked the CD-ROM and may be using a CD-ROM, which may cause the client to fail to recognize the media changes. If possible, eject the CD-ROM from within the client before disconnecting.

Are you sure you want to disconnect and overwrite the lock settings?

Select--Install selection--yes (Y)

Then open the CD/DVD drive icon in the lower left corner of your virtual machine.

If you open it, there is a compressed file, such as. It means that you can install it directly. Please continue to see step three below. You can skip step two. If you open your CD/DVD disc drive find nothing inside. So don't worry, look at the second step to solve . Then the third step is installed again.

Step Two:

First off your Ubuntu virtual machine. Then search for Linux.iso in your computer. This is an image file. It provides some of the tools required for the Linux operating system platform, including, of course, the VMware Tools installation files (which are generally available). For convenience we can copy it directly (Linux.iso) to the same folder as your Ubuntu image. Such as

Then go to your virtual machine to open the interface. Select Edit Virtual machine settings

Change the image file path of the CD/DVD (STAT) to the linux.iso you just copied

Step Three:

Put your CD/DVD under the

This file is extracted to your working directory "download"

Double-click Enter,

Then open the terminal and switch your users to root first.

Default installs Ubuntu does not have root user, this oneself solves. You can see some of the configuration after Ubuntu14.04 installation

The general is to use the root user to install, but you see, can also, ordinary users, direct./vmare-instaall.pl will be rejected, but sudo can.

Then, always enter,,,yes the place press Yes,no to press ENTER

OK, now the installation is successful!

Restart

Reference Link: http://www.cnblogs.com/zlslch/p/5830767.html

Method ②: Command-line installation

Method One: Download a toolkit with a suffix of tools.tgz, insert a USB stick copy into Ubuntu system, unzip the installation (and the method above ① almost)

Method Two: Use the tools tool that comes with VMware

1. VMware Interface Click Install Tools tool

2. Create a folder Mkdir/mnt/cdrom the mount point first (you may want to create a folder using the sudo command)

3. Fdisk-l view is the tools tool mounted? In general, the mount point is:/dev/sdb1

4, Mount point sudo mount-t auto-o ro/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom;

can also be used: mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom;

It can also be: mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom

You can see what's inside the/mnt/cdrom/directory after it's been mounted.

5. Unzip the file to the/tmp/Temp folder below

Tar-zxf/mnt/cdrom vmware-tools.tar.gz/tmp/(-ZXF,-ZXVF)

6. Enter the Cd/tmp/vmware-tools directory to "sudo./vmware-install.pl" file

7, the final implementation look at the MNT directory below there are HGFS files no (can not shutdown, under normal circumstances will appear)

8, click on the VMware Software Interface shared folder, set up the shared folder

9, re-check the/mnt/hgfs/folder name, if some words on behalf of the sharing success, if not, restart the system, and then view the/mnt/hgfs/folder name, if there is no problem.

If you still don't have one, check the following installation problems ①

Problems during installation:

①, if there are no shared folders in the Mnt folder or the CDROM folder, perform the following steps:
1. Execute sudo apt-get install open-vm-dkms (Note: This line will not be executed in the future if installed)
2. Execute sudo mount-t vmhgfs. host://mnt/hgfs
3. Cd/mnt/hgfs

②, if not installed: There are nfs,mount,samba,smbclent connection installation

Reference website: http://www.cnblogs.com/wangkongming/p/4476567.html

Installing Ubuntu vmware-tools in a VMware12 environment