在自己的電腦上安裝一兩臺虛擬機器，用於學習跨平臺跨系統的技術，還是很方便的。VMware是常用的虛擬機器軟體之一了。其中，VMware Workstation是收費版本，功能更加強大全面一點；但是自己本地玩的話，用對於非商業用途免費的VMware Player，就已經足夠了。VMware Tools是一些增強虛擬機器效能的程式，使用VMware Player時，會出現提示更新的情況。

[email protected]:~# mount | grep cdrom
[email protected]:~# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
[email protected]
 
:~# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
[email protected]:~# ls /mnt/cdrom/
manifest.txt  run_upgrader.sh  VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz  vmware-tools-upgrader-32  vmware-tools-upgrader-64
[email protected]:~# tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz 
 
[email protected]:~# ls
backup       c                 java                        python      vmware-tools-distrib  模板  圖片  下載  桌面
benchmarker  examples.desktop  pycharm-community-2017.1.3  tpcc-mysql  公共的                視訊  文件  音樂
[email protected]:~# umount /dev/cdrom
[email protected]:~# cd vmware-tools-distrib/ ; ls
bin  caf  doc  etc  FILES  INSTALL  installer  lib  vgauth  vmware-install.pl
 
[email protected]:~/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.

***** 這一部分瘋狂的列印輸出被省略了；不過需要手動按回車等操作執行配置 *****

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 ...

     本來到這裡就可以大功告成了。But，橋豆麻袋，安裝時第一行列印什麼意思“ open-vm-tools packages are available from the OS vendor and VMware recommends
using open-vm-tools packages ”，原來作業系統提供了更屌的以及更被推薦使用的包“ open-vm-tools ”，那當然使用安裝推薦的程式了。

[email protected]:~# 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)
[email protected]:~# 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
[email protected]:~# 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.

[email protected]:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

     安裝完成後最好手動去VMware軟體介面的首選項裡面把VMware Tools更新檢查勾掉，不然每次開機還會遇到霸程式的更新彈框。