Chapter

05

Power Up
The Virtual
Machine
Now we have loaded the files onto the program.

All that is left to do is press the power on button.

This tells the virtual machine to turn on.
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STEP
One

STEP 1 - TURN THE VIRTUAL MACHINE ON

- You can either press the green arrow at the top left hand corner.

- Or click play virtual machine, on the bottom right hand corner.

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STEP
Two

STEP 2 - CLICK I COPIED IT

When the black screen appears you will see a message.

Choose the “I copied it” option.

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STEP
Three

STEP 3 - INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS

When the message appears, click download and install.

(You don’t have to do this step, but it makes the program go into full screen

easier, setting up printers is also a little easier too).

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STEP
Four

STEP 4 - VMWARE TOOLS WILL BEGIN DOWNLOADING

You will see a loading bar.

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STEP
Five

STEP 5 - CHOOSE A NETWORK

After VMware tools has finished downloading, the program will ask you to choose

a network.

Just choose home network - that’s the easiest.

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STEP
Six

STEP 6 - ADJUST THE SCREEN SIZE

To make it easier to use, you can maximise the virtual machine screen.

Press the maximise screen button

in the top right corner of the screen.

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STEP
Seven

STEP 7 - UPDATE VMWARE TOOLS

A yellow message will appear at the bottom of the window, asking if you want to

update vmware tools. We do. Therefore....

Click “update tools” in order to carry out this procedure.

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STEP
Eight

STEP 8 - CLICK RUN

A window will appear.

Click “run” setup.

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STEP
Nine

STEP 9 - CLICK YES

Another pop up will appear.

Click yes.

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STEP
Ten

STEP 10 - GO THROUGH THE INSTALL WIZARD

Eventually an installation window will appear.

You just need to go through this help wizard and click next on everything.

When it asks you to choose setup type.

Select Complete.

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Eleven

STEP 11 - SELECT COMPLETE SETUP TYPE

When it asks you to choose setup type.

Select Complete.

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Twelve

STEP 12 - PRESS INSTALL

When this stage of the process appears

press the install button.

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Thirteen

STEP 13 - VMWARE TOOLS WILL BEGIN INSTALLING

A loading bar will start to fill up.

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STEP 14 - CLICK FINISH

When VMware tools has completed installing and the loading bar is full.

Another window will appear.

Just click finish when this message appears on the screen.

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Fifteen

STEP 15 - LOG OFF

Another message will appear saying the machine needs to log off to finalise

vmware tools.

Just click “ok”, when this appears.

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Sixteen

STEP 16 - SIGN IN AGAIN

The machine will log out.

Click the user profile to sign in again.

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STEP
Seventeen

STEP 17 - THE VIRTUAL MACHINE WILL NOW BE READY

All the steps for installation have now been completed. You have successfully

powered up the virtual machine.

You will be brought to the virtual machine desktop. You will see all the icons on

the desktop.

By installing vmware tools you will get the best performance too.

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