How to Setup Guest Software on Win 7 VM ⇒ Video You can now transfer files between your physical computer and the virtual machine! When the Windows 7 virtual machine restarts, click on View / Fit Guest Now.Īs soon as you click Fit Guest Now, the screen resolution of the virtual machine will be changed as shown in the image below. To do this, you can click Yes in the following window. Restart your virtual computer for the changes to take effect. Wait while setting up VM software on a Win7 operating system.Īfter the VM software installation is completed on the VM, click Finish. When VM software is ready for setup, click Install. If you install all of the VM Tools, it means that you can run this VM on different VMware platforms in the future.Īfter selecting Complete, click Next to continue. When installing VM program on a Windows Guest, select Complete. In the VM Tools Setup window, click Next. When the VM Tools image is automatically mounted on the system, open My Computer and double-click the drive to start the setup.Ĭlick Yes to continue the operation in the User Account Control window. To setup Guest Tools in Win 7, click VM / Install VM Tools. However, this option is disabled because the Guest Tools is not installed. To automatically fix the screen resolution of the VM, you must click View / Fit Guest Now. When you review the image below, you can understand if the VM program installed on the Windows 7 machine did not change the screen resolution. Therefore, you will need to setup VMware Guest software manually.įollow the stages below to setup guest sofware on Microsoft Win7. Virtual machine software are not installed automatically when installing a Windows 7 system on a VMware Guest machine.

How to Build VMware Tools on Guest Machine A better mouse function between guest and host.The time between the host and the Gues will be synchronized.You will be able to copy and paste between host and Guest machine.You will be able to share files between the host and the Guest machine.Guest machine graphics performance will increase.

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