Hello everyone and welcome to this lesson.
In this lesson, we are going to see that how you can install VMware
Workstation player, which is a virtualization
software which helps you and allows
you to run any operating system into it without
modifying your base operating system. So
here I'm on a Windows OS within
I'm going to download quickly the VMware Workstation, so
I'm going to go to my browser and I'm going to
search for VMware Workstation and I'm going to download it
from the official website.
As you can see over here, I'll scroll down to the
official vmware.com website. I'll click here,
which is the page to download
the VMware Player. So I'm going to click on try workstation
16.0 for Windows and there is
also a version if you are running on Linux.
I'll click on download now and you can see the download has
started successfully.
Now I'm going to cancel this download because I already
have this downloaded in my system. So I'm
going to open up the file explorer.
And I'm going to head to the downloads folder.
Once I'm over here, you can see this is
the file which is successfully downloaded. So I'm going
to quickly double click it to complete the
installation process.
I have to choose. Yes, and this will allow me
to open up the workstation player setup.
It will take few seconds and you will be able to
see the screen which allows you to accept the
license.
The next screen you can see the custom setup. We
wanted to be installed in the default path. So
I'm going to choose next over here.
Again, we want a shortcut on the desktop. So I'm
going to choose next and finally install.
When you do this step, this will now start the installation
process of the VMware Workstation 16,
which will allow us to run
a Linux operating system inside it.
As you can see the final page, I'm going to hit finish
and then I'm going to start this to
verify if the installation was successful.
Here we do not have the key. So I'm going to keep it
as default and I'm going to hit continue and finish.
Do not worry. If you do not provide the key still you
can use for non-commercial use.
As you can see, this is the home screen when you start the
software from here, we can click on create a
new virtual machine, which will help us to set
up the virtual machine in the VMware Workstation.
In our upcoming lessons, we are going to
see how you can set up a Linux ISO, which
is Kali Linux in workstation player to
successfully use it.
Here are the next steps. If you are choosing a Windows ISO
or a Windows operating system to be installed or
a Linux ISO.
For instance. I'm just making a demo example Ubuntu
virtual machine with some specific
configurations, and I'm going to hit finish.
After you do that you can see on your home you'll
be able to see that we have successfully created a virtual
machine, which is Ubuntu.
And I'll click on edit virtual machine settings from
here VMware Workstation allows you
to modify the memory the processors the
hard disk Etc. These settings
can be modified as per your need and
choice of what configuration you are running on. That's
it for this lesson. I hope you
guys understand how to do successful installation of
VMware Workstation. Thank you.