You can repeat the process to create multiple shared folders, some can be read access while others can have read and write access. The other benefit of the VMware tools is sharing a directory/folder on your host machine with your virtual machine so you can read and write to it as if it were a local folder.Ĭhoose a name for the share and Browse to the folder on your host machine that you want to shareĬhoose the permissions, if you only want to be able to read from it you can do that. You can also drag and drop files between your virtual machine and host machine

Now you have the VMware tools you can easily copy and paste text between your host machine and virtual test environment You will see a bunch of output, when it's done you need to reboot which you can do with this command sudo reboot Run the VMware tools perl installer with sudo (administrative) powers and accept the defaults with the -d switch sudo perl

Time to run the terminal for entering commands.Ĭlick the Ubuntu Unity Button in the top left corner of your Ubuntu virtual environmentĪ search area will pop up, type terminal and then click Terminal to start the terminal session.įresh Terminal sessions start in your home directory which is where we unpacked VMWare tools.Įnter the following commands in the terminal to finish installing the VMWare toolsĮnter the vmware tools directory we have just unpacked cd vmware-tools-distrib Select your Home folder in the left pane and click Extract Right click the box icon (VMwareTools-x.x.x) and choose Extract to Click the VMware tools cd that has been mounted, find the VMwareTools-x.x.x.tar.gz file with the box icon.

You will see a message about the CD drive being locked, override it by saying Yes If you don't see the dialog box Click Player menu then Manage and choose Install VMware Tools

Usually you will be prompted to install VMware Tools for Linux so click Download and Install Run your Ubuntu virtual machine from VMPlayer or VMWorkstation.

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