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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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How to install VMware Tools on VMware Workstation 7.1.6 on host machine

I am attempting to install VMware Tools on VMware Workstation 7.1.6 on my Linux Redhat host machine. I have searched for a source to download but have been unsuccessful. Can anyone provide a link to where I can download VMware Tools for Linux Redhat…
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Keyboard issues VMWare Workstation

I have VMWare-Workstation 8.0.0 build-471780. My host OS is Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1. My guest OS is CentOS 6.0. I have following keyboard issues: 1. When I press a key on guest OS (for example Enter) it repeats 2-10 times. It happens to all the…
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How to Setup Network Interfaces using puppet using vsphere vm module?

We are trying an automation of vmware vsphere guest os provisioning using puppet and facing some issues while running first boot script Module code (Trimmed for best reading) if $newip != '' { notify { "Creating VM (${hostname})": } …
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How to install pyvmomi

Can I install pyvmomi package on ESXi? If so how? is there any documentation on this? There is no pip available and when I tried to just copy the python files I find out that it depends on .so files on Linux and .dll on Windows. Thanks
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'SSL certificate error' with vRO 8.11.2 while running internal workflow to make a connection to grid (Keystore certificate issue)

I am using the plugin on VMWare 8.11.2 version where I am trying to connect to the grid. The workflow I am running to make a connection(Create IPAM Connection workflow) is failing with SSL Certificate Error. Upon initial analysis, I figured out that…
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How to overcome keyboard configuration in VMWare Player ?

Sorry for asking a stupid question but I have a problem that makes me crazy. I am trying to install a program on my VMware Player, but while writing the password since it includes " # " character inside of the password I always get incorrect login…
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VmWare Tools segmentation fault(core dumped)

I am using VM player 16.2.4 build-20089737. My problem is VM tools does not installing on my machine, I am getting segmentation fault every single time. I cannot use shared folder, copy panel etc. even worse I have strange network problem , I think…
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Integrated webcam not connecting to Vmware

I am using Windows 10 on host machine and using VMware workstation Version VMware® Workstation 16 Pro version 16.1.2 build-17966106 I am running windows 8.1 as Guest window on VMware. I have succesfully updated my Guest os(Win 8.1) and installed…
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Inconsistent operand constraints

I have installed Raspberry Pi Desktop OS on my VMvare virtual machine. Trying to install open-vm-tools: git clone https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git autoreconf -i ./configure make sudo make install sudo ldconfig Got error while…
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How to get data deduplication and data compression status for vSAN cluster using pyVmomi?

I want to fetch data deduplication and data compression status of vSAN cluster for running precheck disk format version upgrade.
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Uploads via InitiateFileTransferToGuest is extreamly slow

The InitiateFileTransferToGuest let's me upload a file to a VM via the ESXi host it's running on. When I perform the HTTP upload, I'm only getting about 8 Mb/s. When I use dd on the source machine and target VM, I get about 730 MB/s reads &…
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Foreach, last condition don't need "OK" for every vm it finds

I have a script that is supposed to have 3 different exit codes: OK 0 Warning 1 Critical 2 I want it to only write output for each of these depending on conditions and it works fine for 1 and 2 since I want to display the name of the vm's. The…
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How do i filter using a partial VM name (string) in vmware vSphere client REST API?

Good day! i am trying to automate some actions to be done to VM's in my organisation. The action to be done depends on the a substring in the VM name. for eg, i would need to delete all VM's whose name starts with 'delete', etc. I can use the below…
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VMware Player-15 install vmware tools

Installed a new vmware player 15.5.1 on win10 pro, using guest linux/unbuntu 18.04 server Trying to get to install the vmware tools (not sure what options I may have selected when I installed the work station). But the install vmware tools menu…
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editing a file while in memory during a fresh provisioning?

I want to disable fsck from doing a file system checks (yes I am aware of it's purpose). Online it says to edit the 6th column in the /etc/fstab file. sed -i 's/ [1-]$/ 0/g' /etc/fstab I have tried putting it when the kickstarter files run but…
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