[mini2440-006] Build a development environment-Ubuntu virtual machine installation VM Tools

What is the use of VMware Tools?

After installing VMware Tools, the simplest and most intuitive experience is that you can drag files directly from the physical host to the virtual machine.

We learn that embedded is mostly read under Windows, edit the source code, and the process of compiling is placed in the Ubuntu virtual machine. This inevitably involves the transfer of files, and the installation of VMware Tools will greatly facilitate file transfer between virtual machines and hosts.

Ii. installation of VMware Tools

1. Start installing VMware Tools

　　

2. When clicked, Ubuntu will load a CD-ROM, where tar.gz format files are the corresponding installation files for VMware Tools.

　　

3. Use Ctrl + Alt + T to set up the terminal in Ubuntu, and then enter the following command to start installing VMware Tools.

　　

4. During or have a lot of installation prompt options, in addition to the first option to ask if you want to install this program, the default is no, you need to enter the installation of Y or Yes, the other installation options by default, after the installation is successful as follows.

　　

Iii. Configuring virtual Machine Shared Folders

1. Before you turn on the virtual machine, share the folder by configuring the virtual machine. By configuring shared folders, Ubuntu can access the E:\Share directory under Windows by accessing the/mnt/hgfs/share directory. Where thelast level of directory Share in/mnt/hgfs/share is the name in the configuration, Share in E:\Share is the host path configured in.

　　

2. For example, I created a demo file under the /mnt/hgfs/share directory.

　　

3. Then open Windows under the E:\Share directory to view, found that there is indeed a demo file.

　　

[mini2440-006] Build a development environment-Ubuntu virtual machine installation VM Tools