You can access the virtual machine's Start menu (for Windows virtual machines) or Applications menu (for Linux virtual machines) by placing the mouse pointer over the host's Start or Applications menu, or by using a key combination. The guest application windows look just like host application windows, but with color-coded borders. Open the application window, enter Unity view, and the VMware Player window is automatically minimized. * Unity view - Integrate your favorite guest applications with your host. In addition, only Microsoft Windows 2008 operating systems without Hyper-V are supported. Note: In the VMware Player Getting Started Guide, the following operating systems should not be listed as supported for this release: 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.3, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8. * 32-bit and 64-bit Solaris 10 Operating System for x86 Platforms, 10 5/08 (Update 5), as a guest operating system
* 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu LTS 8.04 as host and guest operating systems * 32-bit and 64-bit Mandriva Linux 2008 as a guest operating system * 32-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 as a guest operating system * 32-bit and 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and 10 SP1 and SP2 as host and guest operating systems * 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 5.2 (Advanced Platform, Desktop, and Server) as host and guest operating systems
* 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 7 (Workstation, Enterprise Server, and Advanced Server) as host and guest operating systems * 32-bit and 64-bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0-5.2 as host and guest operating systems * 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.0-5.2 as host and guest operating systems * 32-bit and 64-bit Asianux 3 as a guest operating system * 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows 2008 Standard Server, Data Center, Enterprise, and Small Business Server as guest operating systems without Hyper-V
This release provides full support for the following operating systems in addition to those operating systems supported in previous releases: * 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu LTS 8.04.1 as a guest operating system * 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Recovery environment as a guest operating system * 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Preinstallation environment (all versions) as a guest operating system This release provides experimental support for the following operating systems: For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official VMware Workstation web site.New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems Thanks for using this tutorial for installing VMware Virtualization on CentOS 7 systems. Once the Installation is successful, we will get the below window:Īfter the installation is finished, you can open the workstation from the CentOS 7 application menu under the System Tools sub category.Ĭongratulation’s! You have successfully installed VMware. In the next window, click on ‘Install‘ option to start its installation:
Specify the HTTPs port or keep default one:Įnter the License key in case you have already buy its license, else you can leave it blank: In my case I am also keeping the default directory: Specify the User Name which will have rights to connect to VMware workstation, in my case I using ‘idroot‘ as user name:Ĭlick on next to proceed, you can also keep the default path. VMware-Workstation-Full-14.0.0-6661328.x86_64.bundleĬlick on Next and disable product updates on startup:
Now let’s go ahead and start the installation of Vmware Workstation 14 pro by running the. Once the VMware workstation bundle file is downloaded, set the executable permissions on it with the below chmod command: chmod a+x VMware-Workstation-Full-14.0.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle yum clean allįirst download the Vmware Workstation 14 Pro bundle package here.
I will show you through the step by step installation the VMware Virtualization on a CentOS 7 server. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date. VMware Workstation is not an open source or free software so we need to buy its license key, though we can use its trail version for 30 days then later you can apply its license key. It allows the us to create and run multiple Virtual machines simultaneously. For those of you who didn’t know, VMware Workstation is the most popular Virtualization software used at the desktop level on Linux like operating systems and Microsoft Windows.