Jun 20, 2019 Linux virtual machines. Linux is a common guest OS used in many VMs. It is also a common host OS used to run VMs and even has its own hypervisor called the kernel-based virtual machine (KVM). The mainstream Linux kernel has included the KVM since 2007. Although it is an open source project, Red Hat now owns the original company that developed.
By: IBM Cloud Education
An introduction to virtual machines (VMs)—virtualized, software representations of a computer that can offer increased portability, flexibility, and security.
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What is a virtual machine (VM)?
A virtual machine (VM) is a software representation of a computer. Until VMs came along, operating systems ran directly on physical computers. You could only run one OS on a computer, meaning that if you wanted more than one OS, you had to buy multiple computers.
VMs changed all that by imitating a physical computer in software. This allows you to run several VMs on one physical computer, with each VM containing its own operating system (OS).
To learn more about virtualization technology and how it related to virtual machines, see our essential guide on virtualization. You can also check out our video, 'Virtualization Explained':
To install VMware tools for Linux and Windows virtual machines the users just need to perform a few simples steps given in this article.
Like Oracle VirtualBox extension pack to add extra features for the installed VirtualMachines, the VMware also offers the VMware tools.
After installing the VMware tools which is a pack of different utilities offered by VMware the user will notice an improvement in the performance of the guest operating systems. It will improve the low Low video resolution,
Inadequate colour depth, restricted movement of the mouse, Inability to copy and paste and drag-and-drop files, Incorrect display of network speed, Missing sound, give the ability to snapshots of the guest OS and synchronizes the time.
Inadequate colour depth, restricted movement of the mouse, Inability to copy and paste and drag-and-drop files, Incorrect display of network speed, Missing sound, give the ability to snapshots of the guest OS and synchronizes the time.
The process of the VMware tools installation is the same for Linux such as Ubuntu, Kali, Linux Mint, Debian, Centos, OpenSuse, etc including Windows10/8/7 or any.
Download and Install VMware tools on Linux and Windows 10/8/7
Step 1: Run VMware Workstation player
First of all, open the VMware workstation payer where you have installed the Linux and Windows virtual machines.
Step 2: Select and start VirtualMachine
After opening the VMware player, select the Virtual machine which you want to run and where you want to install the Vmware tools. It could Windows 10/8/7 or any Linux Distro.
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Step 3: Find the Install VMware Tools option
When the Virtual Machine booted completely then go to the Player option given in the VMware player menu. Click on that and then click on the Manage->Install Vmware Tools option.
Step 4: Downloading Vmware Tools
As we click on the Install Vmware tools option, the Player automatically detects the system and download Vmware tool for Linux or Windows respectively.
Step 5: Installing VMware Tools on Linux
On Windows, the installation of Vmware Tools is super easy after downloading the Vmware player simply mount that under CD-Rom automatically from where the user can install it just like any other normal software. However, it is also the same for GUI based Linux operating systems too.
As you can see in the below screenshot, the VMware Tools has been mounted and shown with CD-ROM icon on the screen.
To install this open the command terminal and follow the below-given commands:
Login as root user:
Create a directory cdrom to mount the Vmware tools disc
Now, mount the Cdrom to above-created cdrom directory
See the list of files mounted under the directory
Copy the VMwareTools compress file name and use with below copy command. Like in our case it was VMwareTools-10.3.2-9925305.tar.gz and might be different while you are installing it. So, copy that one and paste with below command:
Here we are copying the VmwareTools to a temporary directory for the installation process.
Switch to the Temporary directory…
List the files and extract the VMware tools compress file
Now change the directory to the directory extracted by the Vmware tools which is VMware-tools-distrib
Run Perl script as mentioned below
Press or hit Enter key couple of times to select the default options of these tools…
The output of the above commands
Second Method: Direct Download VMware tools
Vmware Linux Virtual Machine Download
If you are not able to download the tools from the interface of Vmware player; then visit the official website of Vmware and download Vmware tools directly to install.
Here is the link fordownloading.
In this way, we can install Vmware tools on Linux or windows
Free Vmware Linux Virtual Machine
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