Check the VMware-Tool button states
After starting Ubuntu (after the start must be available to check), refer to the following chart:
If, like me, like, VMware-Tools is grayed out, then the following settings are required, if not gray, they do not make the following settings . The following set:
- First off.
- After the shutdown to bring up the figure below, and then click Set:
pop-up the following chart, note the red box there, if you are not displaying "automatic detection", then you need these three are set to "Automatically detect."
The following figure shows a set of map:
- Click OK after you set up the boot, it may appear similar to the following pop the boot, do not control, directly determined.
When View VMware-Tools, can be a normal show, you can click to install, as shown below:
Begin installing VMware-Tools
Following the above steps, click Install later, we had the opportunity to discover more than a CD-ROM Desktop, as shown below:
If you have this CD, the instructions to click the button above to take effect, then we right-click the CD, and then click "Open in Terminal" , as shown below:
enter a command line interface after click. We use the ls command to view the files at the current directory:
The red archive that is exactly what we need, so we will copy it to / usr / local / bin / directory, execute the following command (note: may be due to version problems your red one archive names may be different, so modify according to your name at the contents of your archive copy):
sudo cp ./VMwareTools-10.3.10-13959562.tar.gz /usr/local/bin/
Before moving on to / usr / local / bin / directory, ls to see if it successfully copied:
cd /usr/local/bin/
ls
The following figure appears, indicating successfully copied.
Run unpack the archive (note that when you copy the archive if I command the same name, inconsistent archive into your name):
sudo tar -zxvf VMwareTools-10.3.10-13959562.tar.gz
After extracting appeared one more vmware-tools-distrib folder, as shown below:
enter the folder and ls View:
cd vmware-tools-distrib
ls
You can see there are 10 files (folders), our goal is to vmware-install.pl, it was a setup.
Perform this installation program:
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Appears in the following figure, all the way to press the Enter (there is a lot of need to press Enter).
Wait a moment, the following figure appears, then the original small screen automatically transformed into full-screen, the installation is successful. After the installation is successful if the screen still can not zoom, you can not use the copy paste function, restart the virtual machine or re-install it:
