How to install win7 virtual machine on Vmware Player?

  

VMware Player, as its name suggests, it can be said to be a player first, can play a variety of virtual machine files; then a virtual player, because it is not a physical tool, but a simulation software. However, in addition to playing virtual machines, VMware Player can also install virtual machines, or create a virtual machine. Let's install a windows7 on VMware Player together!

Windows operating system, and has installed the VMware Player software, we use the version is a bit old, is VMware Player v3.1, but the method is the same. An CD and CD-ROM, or Windows 7 installation image is the ios installation file, and need genuine serial code

Software name:
VMware Player Run virtual machine 12.1.1 Build 3770994 official installation version
software size:
67.5MB
updated:
2016-04-25


1. Create a new virtual machine, as shown below, click “Create a New Virtual Machine", open a new window, you can choose to install the operating system from the CD (of course, you have to have a CD-ROM drive, as shown in the picture, I am not a CD-ROM drive , so the following tips are shown on the way), or installed from the iso image. When installing from the image, click browse to select the iso file, then click next to go to the next step:

2. Enter the genuine serial number, user name, password, confirm the password, and then click next to enter the next step. :

3. In this step, give your virtual machine a name, feel free to do it yourself; then select the location where you want to install the file. Note that since the virtual machine image is generated, it is relatively large. , so the selected disk should have enough space. Then you can click next to go to the next step:

4. Selecting the virtual machine capacity is equivalent to giving your virtual computer a disk with a certain capacity, depending on the purpose of your virtual machine. As shown in the figure, when we install windows7, the system will recommend no less than 40G. Before I installed xp virtual machine used 4G, the installation of windows7 virtual machine selected 10G can be successful, and the virtual machine can be used normally. It is recommended that you do not choose too small, too small programs will report insufficient space.

In addition, this page can choose to save the virtual machine file as a large file or multiple small files. From the user-level perspective, this is not important, you can choose one. Then you can click next to go to the next step:

5. In this step, list the virtual machines we configured. If you feel that the configuration is not suitable, you can click the back button to return. Reconfigure.

This page also allows you to select whether the virtual machine will start directly after installation. After selecting, you can click finish to start the installation process:

6. The installation process is just like when we install the system on the hardware. When necessary, the virtual machine restarts, just like the hardware restart. Finally, the system is booted to the login interface, as shown in the figure below. Enter the password to start using the virtual machine!

7. When the virtual machine is used, we can choose to shut down the virtual machine or suspend the virtual machine. As shown in the figure, turning off the virtual machine is equivalent to shutting down, and the next time it is used, the boot process is taken. Suspending the virtual machine is equivalent to the sleep function of win7 or the standby function of xp, and the next time it starts, it will resume from the moment of suspension.

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