Introduction to VM player (I have never known how to use this, but now I feel that it is very good to use this virtual machine after the virtual machine is configured)

Most Windows users want to try out the charm of other operating systems, but they are afraid of installation troubles. In case of any problems during installation, using a virtual machine becomes the best choice. Speaking of virtual machines, "vmware workstation" is one of the best, but it also has many shortcomings.

First of all, it is a "expensive" software, which is also very large and not flexible to use. VMware has recently released a free and small VMWare Player.

Lite version VMware Workstation

The biggest difference between VMWare Player is that it eliminates the need to create virtual machines. Just like its name, it is just a system "Player" and cannot be used to create virtual systems. However, creating a virtual system is not very important for ordinary home users, because it is very troublesome to create a virtual machine.

Currently, major operating system vendors have provided Virtual Machine files for your convenience. For example, the VMware official website provides a large number of system virtual machine files and various virtual machine application environments, you only need to download the file and run it directly in VMware Player.

In addition, sharing virtual machine files of different operating systems among users is also a way to obtain virtual files.

New Features

Although VMWare Player has canceled the VM creation function, other features provided by VMware Workstation have been retained and are also enhanced, such as support for Optical drives, soft drives, mobile hard drives, flash drives, and other devices, as well as support for user networks and a variety of Virtual Machine file formats.

Previous Virtual Machine Tools released by VMware only support virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, gsx server, or ESX Server. Microsoft Virtual Machine, symantec's livestate recovery disk format cannot be run in VMware Tools.

The emergence of VMWare Player solves this problem. In the future, no matter what formats of virtual machine files are used by users, they will be able to run smoothly in VMware Player, saving the trouble of file format conversion, it also enhances the ease of use of VMWare Player. In addition, the VMWare Player tool supports both Windows and Linux systems.

VMWare Player initial experience

The free VMWare Player provides many highlights. Download it and try it. VMWare Player provides download for both Windows and Linux versions. You can select a system based on your needs.

I use a Windows system, download and run the installation program, and follow the prompts to complete the installation. Because the VMWare Player tool does not support creating virtual machine files, you must first obtain a virtual machine file to use it. There are many ways to obtain virtual machine files, such as sharing virtual machine files from friends, download virtual machine files from the Internet. Here I share a friend's format: ". vmx.

Run VMWare Player. The "Browse virtual machine configuration file" dialog box is displayed (1). Specify the Virtual Machine file you have obtained and click "open, VMWare Player can start running your VM system, isn't it easy?

The main interface of VMWare Player is refreshing and concise, so you do not need to manually set all functional items. It provides excellent support for software drives, optical drives, and mobile storage devices, users in virtual systems are as simple and convenient as operating real systems.

However, because different users have different network environments, the only option for VMware Player to modify is the NIC working mode. VMWare Player also provides three working modes: bridged mode, Nat mode, and host-only mode, here you only need to select according to your needs, click the "Ethernet" project at the top of the Main Window of VMWare Player, a tool menu is displayed (Figure 2), and then select, in this way, the virtual system can meet its network requirements.

Knowledge: In the bridged mode, virtual systems and host machines are like two computers connected to the same hub. They are suitable for building LAN environments. Nat mode is mainly used for virtual systems to access the Internet; the host-only mode is rarely used by users. It is mainly used for network application debugging by network administrators.