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VMware Tools is an optional, free set of drivers and utilities that enhances both the performance of a virtual machine’s guest operating system and interaction between the guest and the host.

The VMware Tools Control Panel, which is organized in a set of tabs, provides a graphical environment in which VMware Tools settings can be configured. VMware Tools is comprised of the following components:

VMware Device Drivers - replaces many of the guest operating system drivers for physical hardware to ensure network connectivity and prevent drive compatibility issues. VMware Device Drivers smooth mouse operations, make folder sharing available and improve sound, graphics and networking performance.

VMware Services - handles communication between the guest and host operating systems. This program, which runs in the background, is called vmtoolsd.exe in Windows guest operating systems, vmware-tools-daemon in Mac OS X guest operating systems, and vmtoolsd in Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris guest operating systems.

VMware User Process - provides the administrator with the ability to cut and paste text between the VMware Remote Console and the host operating system. Also improves mouse pointer and screen resolution functionality. The program file for VMware User Process is called vmtoolsd.exe on Windows guest operating systems and vmware-user on Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD guest operating systems.

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VMWare guest tools (vixtools) API is not finding the system /tmp directory

I am working on a Java class that accesses VMWare VMs on a VCenter using the Java API. The Java API allows us to connect to the VCenter, access the guest VM (CentOS7) and list files in directories with no problems except for the /tmp directory. for…
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open vm tools fails to customize guest

I am trying to deploy a cent-os 7 VM on a vcenetr from pyvmomi python library and then before powering on the VM I am trying to setup static IP and DNS for the VM. VM creation goes fine , but guest customization fails, givimg following…
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Get service tool error when trying to install vmware tools

I am trying to install vmware tools on an EXSi host. This is the code I have to do it. --- - hosts: my-host tasks: - name: Install VMware tools yum: pkg="open-vm-tools" state=present when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" …
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How to fetch chat message from socialcast? (API returning status message)

I am using socialcast API's for chat feature. Using APIs from socialcast API docs While fetching group message I am using following url : https://domain-com.socialcast.com/api/groups/:groupID/messages.json but it returning status message (Post…
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SQL Server on Vmware ESx (update 2)

I have a strange behavior. I have a Windows Server 2012 machine installed on VMWARE ESX 6 (update 2) which has a database containing one table (with 5 millions of rows). The server is a Windows 2012, SQL Server 2014 enterprise, 80Gb of RAM (64gb…
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copy/paste clipboard periodically corrupted after reload vmware guest system

I have annyoning and difficult reproducible bug with my vmware workstation systems (v11.1.0.58002,(same behavior for any lower version), Win7_64bit host). After i reload any of guest sustems, a clipboard from this system stop working, and starts…
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rbvmomi extraConfig update fails with `unexpected property name`

I am using vmomi gem for using vsphere api. Here is what I did :- .... new_extra_config = [{"softPowerOff"=>"true"}] vm.ReconfigVM_Task(:spec => RbVmomi::VIM.VirtualMachineConfigSpec(:extraConfig => new_extra_config)).wait_for_completion .... This…
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Integrate powercli commands with Python scripts

When we run commands on power cli it displays the operations we have performed. For example Start-VM –VM “VM1” simply starts the VM in the v center. I want to write such code in Python that we can call these commands in code and store the output…
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Get vmId via pyVmomi

Currently Im using vim-cmd to perform multiple operations in my VMware center. I'm using SSH paramiko module to connect and retrieve vim-cmd command status: vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 13 vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 13 vim-cmd…
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Perl while loop not behaving as expected

I am using a while loop with a sleep inside to check when a an event has occured(i am launching a Virtual Machine, and then using the loop to wait and be sure that it is powered on and booted). My loop is as follows: my $vm_powerState =…
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Pysphere having a issue with inserting an annotation after setting vm_mor

The goal of my program is to parse some information returned from an oracle database. Then as it parses this information build a pickle dictionary to insert data into a vcenter vm.object using the pysphere module. However, currently I'm running into…
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VMware vSphere Web Client - Login is disable temporary

I have problem when am trying to login in to the VMware vSphere Web Client VIA Google chrome I enter the following User name Password User name and password are correct but I get the following message Login is disable temporary while your previos…
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ESX vmware auto setup from image

I want to write program that coudl ask a version of template and connect to vCenter and deploy new Virtual Machine from template. thanks
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Issues with the vmware vcloudPHP-5.1.2

I'm having issues with the VMware vcloudPHP-5.1.2 API? I downloaded the files, and uploaded to my server. I updated the include files to the right path. The first issue I received was: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM…
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Can I access an application running on Pow from a VMWare Fusion VM?

I'm trying to access an application in order to test Internet Explorer against my Rails application. I have done this before, but it was when I ran my apps using Passenger and Nginx. Now that I am using Pow, I can't get it to work. I am aware of…
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