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Installing VMware Tools is part of the process of creating a new virtual machine, and upgrading VMware Tools is part of the process of keeping your virtual machine up to current standards. Although your guest operating systems can run without VMware Tools, many VMware features are not available until you install VMware Tools. When you install VMware Tools, the utilities in the suite enhance the performance of the guest operating system in your virtual machine and improve the management of your virtual machines.
The virtual machine runs in its own window on the Mac desktop, and can then run your Windows apps on screen at the same time as conventional 'native' Mac apps, such as Apple Mail and Safari. The ability to run native Mac apps and virtualised Windows apps at the same time is a lot more convenient than dual-booting. 1) Download Mac OS X 10.5.5 X86 VMware image here. ( It’s a torrent download) 2) Download and install VMware player 3. It’s a free product. 3) Extract the downloaded image file. See here for more details. ( it will be creating Mac VMware VMX file and VMware disk files) 4) Start VMware player. Oct 04, 2007 VMware Player for Mac. It is VMware policy to not comment on future or unannounced products. You might want to consider using Fusion. Oreeh: The MSRP of Fusion is US$80, though you can get it for less at some places (for example, Amazon.com has it right now for $41.49 after rebate). VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualisation products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation Player for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer.
For information about creating virtual machines, see the documentation for the applicable VMware product.
The installers for VMware Tools are ISO image files. The CD-ROM in your guest operating system detects the ISO image file. Each type of guest operating system, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, has an ISO image file. When you select the command to install or upgrade VMware Tools, the virtual machine’s first virtual CD-ROM disk drive temporarily connects to the VMware Tools ISO file for your guest operating system.
You can use the Windows Easy Install or Linux Easy Install feature to install VMware Tools as soon as the operating system is finished installing.
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VMware Workstation Player for Mac is called VMware Fusion. The original VMware Workstation Player does not support Mac OS but VMware Inc. Offers a virtual machine for Mac Users called VMware Fusion. VMware Fusion allows Mac users run Windows, Linux and other operating systems on their computers seamlessly without needing to reboot.
The most recent versions of the ISO files are stored on a VMware Web site. When you select the command to install or upgrade VMware Tools, the VMware product determines whether it has downloaded the most recent version of the ISO file for the specific operating system. If the latest version has not been downloaded or if no VMware Tools ISO file for that operating system has ever been downloaded, you are prompted to download the file.
- VMware Tools installer from windows.iso automatically detects the windows version. It does not proceed with the installation on guest operating systems earlier than Windows Vista.
- VMware Tools installer from winPreVista.iso does not proceed with the installation on Windows Vista and later.
- VMware Tools installer from linux.iso does not proceed with installation on Linux guest operating system versions earlier than RHEL5, SLES 11, Ubuntu 10.04, and other Linux distributions with glibc version earlier than 2.5.
- VMware Tools installer from darwinPre15.iso does not proceed with installation on MAC OS X guest operating systems versions 10.11 or later.
- VMware Tools installer from darwin.iso does not proceed with installation on MAC OS X guest operating systems versions earlier than 10.11.
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The installation procedure varies, depending on the operating system. For information about installing or upgrading VMware Tools on your guest operating systems, see the topic about upgrading virtual machines in the Virtual Machine Administration Guide. For general instructions about installing VMware Tools, see the VMware Knowledge base article http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014294.