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Enter the name of your installation and click ‘ Next‘ Wget Installing OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on VirtualBox You should already have Opensuse Tumbleweed iso file downloaded. In this guide, we are going to see how to install OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on both VirtualBox and VMWare Workstation. Both Tumbleweed and Leap and created by the OpenSUSE project. It is therefore mostly preferred by developers who wish build their projects on the latest packages. This means that it always has the latest stable applications. Linux kernel version is 3.10 or later, and the version of the installed Open VM Tools is 10.3.0 or later.įor the Linux virtual machines that have Open VM Tools installed but are not in the scope mentioned in the preceding bullet, Install/Update/Reinstall VMware Tools menu is enabled, so that you can install bundled tar tools on top of Open VM Tools to get Shared Folder (HGFS) feature support.įor old Linux virtual machines not supported by Open VM Tools, perform the following steps to install tar tools.OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, created by OpenSUSE project, and among the many worldwide free and opensource community software, is a rolling release of version of OpeSUSE.Linux kernel version is 4.0 or later, and the version of the installed Open VM Tools is 10.0.0 or later.SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 and later releases.Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later releases.Modern Linux distributions not officially supported by tar tools.Install/Update/Reinstall VMware Tools menu is disabled for the following Linux virtual machines: Workstation Pro is 10.3.10 and will not be updated.

VMware Tar Tool for Linux virtual machine is feature-frozen at version 10.3.10, so the tar tools (linux.iso) included in
