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 am on a Windows OS wherein 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 dot com website and 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
that 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 a 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 want it 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 this 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 open to 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 open to 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 understood how to do successful installation of VMware Workstation.
Thank you.