Installation and use of VMware Tools and open VM tools: solve the problems of incomplete screen and unable to transfer files of virtual machines

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stay VMware Workstation A new virtual machine has been created on the , Installed Ubuntu 10.04 Version of iso, Two problems were found after the creation ：

(1) The virtual machine interface can't fill the whole screen , It's very anti human .

(2) The host and virtual machine cannot copy and paste each other at will , Whether it's a file or clipboard .

One 、 install VMware Tools

First, let's install the official tools VMware Tools, But in the software VMware Tools The installation icon is gray . This is because VMware It will automatically detect CD In the image file VMware Tools Installation package , If it is not detected, it will appear gray and cannot be installed .

Shut down the virtual machine , Turn on virtual machine settings .

Set the virtual machine to CD/DVD、CD/DVD2 And floppy disk are set to automatic detection .

Restart the virtual machine , The gray words are lit .

If that doesn't work , Then refer to this article for configuration .

Click on the install VMware Tools.

VMware Will automatically virtual a CD out , Inside is Vmware tools Software for . At the same time, a prompt will pop up at the bottom , Tell the user VMware Tools How to install . Seeing this prompt indicates that the CD has been loaded successfully .

open VMware Tools The path of , Copy the contents to another directory .

take tar Packet decompression , Use the following instructions to install vmware-install.pl.

sudo perl vmware-install.pl

You can customize the configuration according to the prompts during installation , I go straight back here default 了 .

After successful installation , First, you can see the full screen display of the virtual machine ！

Two 、 Solve the problem of data transmission between host and virtual machine

I thought it was installed VMware Tools Then you can drag and drop files and transfer them to each other at will , It still doesn't work . Then open the virtual machine settings .

stay “ Options ” Tab , find “ Client isolation ” Options , Make sure both hooks are on .

If it still doesn't work , No need VMware Tools, change to the use of sth. open-vm-tools Tools . In some versions of Linux in （ for example Kali）,VMware Tools Sometimes you can't successfully complete the relevant functions .

open-vm-tools Simply put, it's open source VMware Tools, Has been officially recognized . Official website of open source code .

If you want to install open-vm-tools, Be sure to delete VMware Tools, Otherwise the two will conflict . The uninstaller is tar After decompressing the package /bin In the catalog vmware-uninstall-tools.pl.

sudo vmware-uninstall-tools.pl

Install the new open-vm-tools-desktop. Note here , With a graphical interface ubuntu loading open-vm-tools-desktop, There's no graphical interface ubuntu loading open-vm-tools.

sudo apt-get open-vm-tools-desktop

If this happens error.

Solve it like this . First change the source , open ubuntu An application of software & Updates, If you can't find this application, you can search it in the system, and you can find .

choose Ubuntu Software tab , stay Download from Choose from others.

find China, Select one of the sources , Here I chose Alibaba cloud , spot Choose Server.

Update source address .

sudo apt-get update

After the update is complete , Install again open-vm-tools Tools .

sudo ap-get install open-vm-tools-desktop

reboot

It's a success ！！！

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