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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 license Windows VMs automatically on ESXi Host?

I wanted to know whether it is possible to install and activate a Windows VM (Win10, WinServer) automatically, if you deploy the VM via REST API on VMWare? I do not want to flood the whole json request here and flood the post with code. So I do not…
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ovf deployment on VMWare environment with guestinfo property

I am trying to deploy a VM using OVF configuration and my goal is to pass the key-value provided by the user in the OVF environment to the VM using VMware guestinfo. Following are the settings/attributes I have added to my OVF file
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VMware Workstation 15 export to customers ESXi5.5

I don't have ESXi inhouse, but am building a VM for a customer and they have two environments, an ESXi5.5 deployment and a 6.7. At the moment I'm only able to export to an OVF/OVA format, which (for my customer) has worked in their 6.7 environment…
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How to enable copy/paste between an VMware workstation and a host

I've an ESXi server that hosts multiples VM. I'm using a CentOS 7 VM (not specific to this OS) and I'd like to copy/paste text between my host and the VM. VMTools are installed and running properly on the VM but that functionality isn't working. In…
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Split Strings in a Value column with Powercli

This is what I wrote to get output with powercli; Get-VM -name SERVERX | Get-Annotation -CustomAttribute "Last EMC vProxy Backup"|select @{N='VM';E={$_.AnnotatedEntity}},Value This is the output VM Value …
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Can rbvmomi use VM Tools similarly to Invoke-VMScript script

I need to copy a script and run it in a VM. Have been using PowerCLI Invoke-VMScript and Copy-VMGuestFile. Can the same be accomplished with rbvmomi (and how :) )? Thanks
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How to get own vm name in guest environment

I want to change VM setting in my own guest VM. I can connect to vCenter but I'm not detecting my own VM. What is a simple way to get the VM name?
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Can we install a VM inside a VM

I have a VM machine (Ubuntu 64 bit) on Vmware environment and I want to install Openedx on it. I have also installed a VirtualBox using vagrant (as part of the requirement of Openedx). However when we want to run the Vagrant using vagrant up…
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Perl VMOMI can't find the way to get VmwareTools status via SOAP VSphere API

I try to get the VmWare tools status for a particular VM from Perl's VMOMI module, but I can't figure how to do it. What I tried : use strict; use warnings; use VMOMI; use Data::Dumper; my $host = 'vcenter1.example.com', my $user = 'myuser'; my…
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How do i Develop a plugin for a VMware product?

I have a requirement to build a plugin for vRealize operations manager(vROps). This plugin essentially tweaks the existing functionality to make it more customized. How do I develop this plugin? By how, I mean do i tweak the source code of the…
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ansible vmware-tools playbook

I am trying to create a playbook that will see if "/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh" is running if not running then start. I have tried command and shell but I can't figure the syntax for a conditional. --- # VMWARE_TOOLS_NOT_RUNNING - hosts:…
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can we Use vrealize log insight instead of Splunk for small Jobs?

methods to get data into the Vrealize log insight? restricted on pulling data from? restrict on data permission in Vrealize log insight.
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Not valid kernel header path during vmware tools installation

During the vmware tools instalation on a CentOS 7 MV (running on ESXi 5.5, tools version VMwareTools-8.6.5-621624) I have the next problem: Searching for a valid kernel header path... The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.10.0-327.4.5.el7.x86_64…
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VMWare Tools StartUp Script

I am on the latest version of VMWare Workstation. In my VMWareTools I have configrued an individual script file (start.bat) to be started when the (guest) OS is booted. Unfortuantely it does not run when starting the guest system as intended. When…
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Want to write a python module for VMware (ansible) to get the mapping from VM to Storage

How to exactly use the pyvmomi library to get the above mapping, I mean what data structures to use particularly. I suppose it should be done via data store. def getdatastore(datastore): try: summary = datastore.summary return…
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