You must perform a custom installation and include that component. The AppDefense component is not installed by default.For operating systems later than these, you must log in as an administrator. Any user can install VMware Tools in a Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME guest operating system. Log in as an administrator unless you are using an older Windows operating system.Use the virtual machine settings editor to set the CD/DVD drive to autodetect a physical drive. This ISO file is detected as a physical CD by your guest operating system. The autodetect setting enables the virtual machine's first virtual CD/DVD drive to detect and connect to the VMware Tools ISO file for a VMware Tools installation. If you connected the virtual machine’s virtual CD/DVD drive to an ISO image file when you installed the operating system, change the setting so that the virtual CD/DVD drive is configured to autodetect a physical drive.Verify that the guest operating system is running.Its rock solid – no crashes, no issues with Ubuntu 12.04 & Ubuntu 14.04 guests. However, saying all of this – I’ve been using VMWare Player for the last few weeks. Why use VMWare when you can use a simple and well support VirtualBox – despite VirtualBox being flaky at best, at least Oracle tries to support its product quickly and efficiently. I use virtual machines to see and use the latest stuff. In my opinion – this is not on and shows a poor advertisement by VMWare for its tools & products. There is a small community around the product that attempt to provide solutions – usually around applying patches to the source code.Īn example of this official lack of support is Kernel 3.16 used in Utopic (14.10) – Shared Folder support is broken. VMWare seldom updates its VMWare Tools – new versions of a kernel & distributions dont get support from VMWare itself until many months after the release. Installing VMWare tools is not the simple VirtualBox autorun and install method. This should report that “Unity 3D supported = True” If you have install Unity you can test the 3D Acceleration support via running: I got around this my adding the following to the. You may need to install the proprietary NVIDIA/AMD drivers if you are using NVIDIA or AMD graphics respectively.įor me I’m using a fairly modern Intel graphics card in my laptop – but VMWare did not recognise this and kept throwing up 3D acceleration errors. Sudo ln -s /mnt/hgfs/Downloads sf_Downloadsįor the majority of new graphics cards, 3D Acceleration is supported. If you’ve got anything depended on the old drives the easiest was is to create a symbolic link to the new location Mapped folders are now in /mnt/hgfs whereas VirtualBox they were in /media/sf_Downloads You need to add shared folders by editing through the VMWare GUI: Jide Technology accepts donations for the continued development of this free software. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 3.0.207 is the latest version last time we checked. Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modulesĬTRL+ALT to exit the VMPlayer if focus is grabbed. Remix OS is provided under a freeware license on Windows from mobile phone tools with no restrictions on usage. Next install the dkms package to ensure that vmware kernel modules are automatically rebuilt when a new kernel is released. Use VMPlayers menu option to install the VMWare Tools Installer choose the latest VBoxGuestAdditions folder press the Tab key to autocomplete the VBox folder name Uninstall the old virtualbox guest additions: vmdk file) you converted and stored in ~/Documents over the created (empty). The key part here is to create the VM with a single hard-drive and the size must be slightly larger than the size in VirtualBoxĢ) Select: “I will install the operating system later” followed by Nextģ) Select Guest Operating OS (for example Linux) and select the version you have (for example “Ubuntu 64bit”)Ĥ) Click “Next” and give a the virtual machine a name, for example “ubuntu”.ĥ) Click “Next” set the maximum disk size to the size (or larger) of your actual virtual machine (important!)Ħ) Click “Store virtual disk as a single file (important!)ħ) Click “Next”and click “Finish”. Next create a blank Virtual Machine in VMWare Player. VBoxManage clonehd "ubuntu.vdi" ~/Documents/ubuntu.vmdk -format vmdk -variant standard I’m going to store the converted VM in ~/Documents Next take the name of the VDI – in my case ubuntu.vdi and convert it. VirtualBox has a nice command line that does just this.įirst change to the folder containing the VDI file of your VM: Next you need to convert the VDI format to VMWare’s vmdk format. So use the VirtualBox GUI to delete all snapshots. The first hint to perform the conversion is to remove all snapshots. VirtualBox stores its VM’s in your home-folder in ~/VirtualBox. Continuing my journey, here are a few hints and tips I picked up along the way on how to convert an existing VirtualBox virtual machine to VMWare’s vmdk format.