What should I do if Linux cannot be full screen under VMWare VM?

VMWare is currently the most popular virtual machine tool in the industry, but recently users have reported some problems during the use of Linux virtual machine but no way to full screen. Should a lot of users have encountered such a problem, then, Linux VM virtual machine can not be full screen, what should I do?

1. Prerequisite Description

VMWare 10.0, OS: Windows 7, guest OS: Ubuntu 15.10

Description: Cannot use Ubuntu in full screen, only in a small Use it in the screen

2. The operations and attempts that have been made

Set the screen resolution of the Guest, which is invalid; therefore, the association between it and the current Host is excluded.

3. Install VMWare-Tools

After some searching, it is found that additional tools need to be installed to achieve the above full-screen operation. After starting the VMware virtual machine, click Install VM-- "install VMWare Tools, reported the following error message:

Easy Install is still under way, it must be turned off Easy Install

4.What is Easy install?

The easy install mode means that you don't have to participate in the installation of the virtual machine after setting up the new virtual machine wizard. The whole process is automatically completed by the software. As long as the CDKey, user name, system password and other information is filled in the wizard, VMware automatically performs partition formatting, registering the system, setting the username and password, automatically logging in, and installing VMware Tools during the installation process without manual intervention. This naturally saves a lot of time and effort. However, the premise must be filled out with various information, and there is no need to replace the CD or image during the installation process, otherwise the installation will be aborted!

5. How to solve this problem?

on mode the CD-ROM in the destination VM settings, setting is as follows:

This mode setting is canceled Easy install, can be installed VMWare-Tools

6. After starting the VM, select VM--"Install VMWare-Tools, the following operations are completed in the Linux system of the VM:

Mount the cdrom to the /mnt/cdrom directory, specifically The command is: mkdir /mnt/cdrom

mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom (here the device name of the cdrom device is unknown, you can use the command df or use the command fdisk -l |  Grep sr0 to see, my system's device name is /dev/sr0)

Unzip the files in cdrom: tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools--.tar.gz . # Extract the installation file to the current directory

cd vmware-tools-distrib # Enter the vmware-tools-distrib directory

Execute the command:. /vmware-install.pl

You can successfully install it all the way through the carriage return. It takes about a few minutes to complete all operations.

7. Then the system restarts,

The next time you boot, use the ctrl+alt+enter key combination to achieve full screen of Linux. You can complete the full screen operation.

The above is the solution that Linux can't be full screen under VMWare virtual machine. When users encounter such problems, they can refer to the method described above to solve.