VMware Workstation Player on Windows as Host

Follow these steps when VMware Workstation Player is installed on the host Windows machine. VMware-ready virtual machine files are stored in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Virtual Machines\. This is the location selected by default by VMware Workstation Player. If another location is preferred, adjust this procedure as required.

Prepare the Lighthouse VM file for import into VMware Workstation Player:

  1. Move the lighthouse-24.02.0-vmx.zip archive to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Virtual Machines\.

  2. Right-click the archive and select Extract All from the contextual menu.

  3. A Select a Destination and Extract Files dialog opens. By default, the location is the same folder as the archive is in: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Virtual Machines\. Leave this as the destination folder.

  4. Uncheck the Show Extracted Files When Complete checkbox and then click Extract.

  5. A folder called lighthouse is created inside C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Virtual Machines\.

Import the Opengear Lighthouse VM file into VMware Workstation Player

  1. Launch VMware Workstation Player.

  2. Click Open a Virtual Machine.

  3. Navigate to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Virtual Machines\lighthouse\.

    VMware Workstation Player points to Libraries > Documents and includes C:\Users\%USERNAME%\My Documents\.

    Assuming this is the case, double-click Virtual Machines and then double-click Lighthouse.

  1. If only one file, Lighthouse, is visible, double-click on it to add the Lighthouse virtual machine to the VMware Workstation 12 Player virtual machines list. If more than one file displays, double-click Lighthouse.vmx.

  2. The Lighthouse virtual machine is added to the VMware Workstation 12 Player virtual machines list.

  3. With Opengear Lighthouse VM selected in the VMware Workstation 12 Player virtual machine list, click Play Virtual Machine to boot Lighthouse.