From bfdd8e9d13038884284a542da402f9f5615d1ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "ahrenholz@gmail.com" Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:49:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add note about open-vm-tools --- wiki/VCORE.wiki | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/wiki/VCORE.wiki b/wiki/VCORE.wiki index 9a9019a0..8f7ac475 100644 --- a/wiki/VCORE.wiki +++ b/wiki/VCORE.wiki @@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ Unzip `vcore-4.3.zip` to your virtual machines directory; a `vcore-4.3` folder w If you already have VMware installed, double-click on the vmx file to open the VCORE virtual machine with VMware. +Ubuntu has an `open-vm-tools` package to provide VMware Player compatibility. You can install it with: +{{{ +sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox +}}} + + = VCORE usage notes = Note the RAM and number of processors. If you have a quad-core system with hyperthreading (8 threads), then you may want to assign up to 4 processors to VCORE. 2GB is a good amount of RAM for VCORE; unless your machine only has 2 or 3GB of physical RAM, then you may try 1GB for VCORE.