在自己的电脑上安装一两台虚拟机，用于学习跨平台跨系统的技术，还是很方便的。VMware是常用的虚拟机软件之一了。其中，VMware Workstation是收费版本，功能更加强大全面一点；但是自己本地玩的话，用对于非商业用途免费的VMware Player，就已经足够了。VMware Tools是一些增强虚拟机性能的程序，使用VMware Player时，会出现提示更新的情况。
VMware Tools包文件下载好以后，会提示手动更新，可以点击弹框右下角的“ 帮助 ”按钮打开操作帮助文档，https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Player/12.0/com.vmware.player.win.using.doc/GUID-08BB9465-D40A-4E16-9E15-8C016CC8166F.html。就过程而言，主要是挂载光驱、加载更新文件和执行脚本。
root@ubuntu:~# mount | grep cdrom
root@ubuntu:~# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
root@ubuntu:~# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
root@ubuntu:~# ls /mnt/cdrom/
manifest.txt run_upgrader.sh VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz vmware-tools-upgrader-32 vmware-tools-upgrader-64
root@ubuntu:~# tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz
root@ubuntu:~# ls
backup c javapython vmware-tools-distrib 模板 图片 下载 桌面
benchmarker examples.desktop pycharm-community-2017.1.3 tpcc-mysql 公共的视频 文档 音乐
root@ubuntu:~# umount /dev/cdrom
root@ubuntu:~# cd vmware-tools-distrib/ ; ls
bin caf doc etc FILES INSTALL installer lib vgauth vmware-install.pl
root@ubuntu:~/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl
open-vm-tools packages are available from the OS vendor and VMware recommends
using open-vm-tools packages. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803 for more
information.
***** 这一部分疯狂的打印输出被省略了；不过需要手动按回车等操作运行配置 *****
To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and
file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
2. Log out and log back into your desktop session
3. Restart your X session.
Enjoy,
--the VMware team
Found VMware Tools CDROM mounted at /media/student/VMware Tools. Ejecting
device /dev/sr0 ...
本来到这里就可以大功告成了。安装时第一行打印什么意思“ open-vm-tools packages are available from the OS vendor and VMware recommends
using open-vm-tools packages ”，原来操作系统提供了更屌的以及更被推荐使用的包“ open-vm-tools ”，那当然使用安装推荐的程序了。
root@ubuntu:~# apt-cache search open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools - Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
open-vm-tools-dev - Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (development)
open-vm-tools-desktop - Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (GUI)
open-vm-tools-dkms - Open VMware Tools vmxnet kernel module (deprecated)
root@ubuntu:~# ls /usr/bin/ | grep vmware
vmware-config-tools.pl
vmwarectrl
vmware-guestproxycerttool
vmware-hgfsclient
vmware-toolbox-cmd
vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
vmware-user
vmware-xferlogs
root@ubuntu:~# vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.
Stopping services for VMware Tools
File /etc/vmware-caf/pme/config/cafenv-appconfig is backed up to
/etc/vmware-caf/pme/config/cafenv-appconfig.old.0.
This program previously created the directory /usr/lib/vmware-caf/pme/lib, and
was about to remove it. Since there are files in that directory that this
program did not create, it will not be removed.
File /etc/pulse/default.pa is backed up to /etc/pulse/default.pa.old.1.
The removal of VMware Tools 10.1.6 build-5214329 for Linux completed
successfully. Thank you for having tried this software.
root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop