The best practice is to find the latest stable version on the official VMware website. To install VMware, first, download the binary package on your system.
#MOUNT A USB DRIVE TO UBUNTU VMWARE IMAGE ON WORKSTATION HOW TO#
This post tells you the step by step procedure how to boot VM’s in VMware workstation from USB with the use of Plop Boot Manager.Ģ.Extract the downloaded ZIP file in your local hard diskģ. Installing VMware Workstation Pro On Ubuntu Step 1: Download VMware Workstation Pro. This can be achieved with the help of free tool called Plop Boot Manager.
It is one of the limitation of the VMware workstation and you will not be given any option in Virtual Machine BIOS to boot from USB drive. Have you ever tried to boot your Virtual Machine in VMware workstation from USB falsh drive. IN general, we will always attach ISO images to our Workstation to boot and install Guest operating system in the virtual machine. Then if you want to copy some content from usb, you can do simply: cp /media/usb/file. Step2: Run the following command as sudo in your Terminal application in order to check the available storage devices on your system and the file system they are using: sudo fdisk -l. We are installing and testing all the operating systems features and lot of advanced configurations in VMware workstation. First check the command : sudo fdisk -l to find which device file is your USB drive (sda,sdc,sdb) Then use this commands to mount it somewhere: mkdir /media/usb (creates directory where usb will be mounted) mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb. Let us follow these steps to mount a USB drive manually to your system: Step1: Plug in the USB drive to an available port.
We all have been playing around with VMware Workstation from long time.