Hello tech enthusiasts! Welcome back to jasta, your go-to destination for all things tech. Today, we’re diving into how to speed up your virtual machine and unlock helpful perks, providing a step-by-step guide to help you accomplish this on your computer. Whether you’re a seasoned tech guru or just starting your digital journey, our straightforward instructions will make the process a breeze. Let’s jump in and speed up your virtual machine and unlock helpful perks.
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Requirements
- VMware Workstation Player or Workstation Pro
- Virtual Machine
Speed up your virtual machine and unlock helpful perks
After creating a virtual machine, you might have noticed some performance problems. If you have already tried to upgrade your assigned RAM and your CPU-Cores, but your virtual machine is still lagging and responding slowly to your input, then you should try to install VMware Tools. This will not just improve the overall performance and input speed of your virtual machine, but it will also unlock some other additional benefits. What exactly VMware Tools is adding will be covered in the last point of this post. Now let us start with the installation!
To install VMware Tools to speed up your virtual machine and unlock helpful perks, you first have to start your VM. After it is boot up, you can start with the installation.
If you are using VMware Workstation Player, you have to click on Player in the top left corner of the window, select Manage in the opened drop-down menu and finally click on Install VMware Tools.
If you are using VMware Workstation Pro you have to click on VM in the top menu and click on Install VMware Tools.
This was the only step of the installation process that does differ between the VMware Workstation Player and the Pro one.
After pressing the Install VMware Tools menu entry, you can now see a DVD drive popping up in your Windows Explorer inside your virtual machine. If you click on that, you can now see two setup files. Depending on what virtual machine you have set up, you should either open the normal setup file for 32-bit systems or the setup64 file for 64-bit systems.
Now the installation process should start by displaying the first window of the setup. There you just have to press Next.
The window after pressing Next on the setup asks for the installation type. For nearly everyone the first and already preselected type is the correct type. To be sure you can also select the second type which is for the Complete installation, but this is not necessary except you want to use your virtual machine with different VMware products. If you want to do a custom installation, you have to select Custom. In this tutorial, we will use the preselected type, Typical, since this is suitable for most of the users. To confirm your selection and continue with the next window, click on Next.
On the next and also last page of the setup, you just have to press Install, to begin installing VMware tools to speed up your virtual machine and unlock helpful perks. You can also change your installation type or cancel the setup on this window.
Now the VMware Tools are getting installed. When this process is complete, you will notice it immediately, as the virtual machine screen will automatically adapt to your screen. Also, a final dialog will appear on your screen, which asks you to restart your virtual machine to complete the installation. You can either press Yes to restart immediately or No so that your VM keeps running. The installation will then be complete after you restart your machine manually.
Benefits of VMware Tools
- Speeding up your virtual machine
- Better graphics performance
- Synchronization of Guest and Host Time
- Provides the ability to take quiesced snapshots of the guest OS
- Eliminates or improves the following issues
- Low video resolution
- Inadequate color depth
- Incorrect display of network speed
- Restricted movement of the mouse
- Inability to copy and paste and drag-and-drop files
- Missing sound
- Unlocking many more helpful perks
If you want to find out more about VMware Tools you can visit the official documentation.
