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Networking: A Beginner's Guide
At this point, there are some particulars you should know about interacting with
the VMware virtual machine console. When you click in the console, the console
"owns" the host computer's mouse and keyboard. To release the mouse and keyboard
so that you can interact with the host system, press
CTRL
+
ALT
. When you want to return
to the console, just click in it again. Also, rather than press
CTRL
+
ALT
+
DELETE
for a virtual
machine, you press
CTRL
+
ALT
+
INSERT
.
CTRL
+
ALT
+
DELETE
is always interpreted by VMware
as being intended for the host operating system.
Installing VMware Tools
After creating a virtual machine and installing the guest operating system into it, one
of the first things you should do is to install VMware Tools into the virtual machine.
The VMware Tools set helps make the virtual machines operate much more efficiently
(especially for graphics operations).
The VMware Tools package is part of VMware Server, and installing it is fairly
easy. To do so, when the virtual machine is running, navigate to the virtual machine's
Summary tab, as shown in Figure 23-18. In the Status pane, you will see a link labeled
Figure 23-18.
Choose the Install VMware Tools link on the virtual machine's Summary tab.
Summary :
386 Networking: A Beginner's Guide At this point, there are some particulars you should know about interacting with the VMware virtual machine console. Installing VMware Tools After creating a virtual machine and installing the guest operating system into it, one of the first things you should do is to install VMware Tools into the virtual machine.
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