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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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Powershell nested if / else command is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

I am attempting to write a powershell script that removes VMware Tools off of physical workstations in my environment (don't ask) while ignoring VMs and I am having issues with the nested if / else statements in the "#Execute VMware Tools removal if…
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Checking variable presence in bash script

I'm retrieving a host-name from VMware Tools and trying to evaluate if two variables are present in my script: selection=2 # Check if hostname is present in guestinfo hostname="$(vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.startup.hostname")" if [[…
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Unable to setup chaperone Development Environment(DE)

I was going through the steps to setup chaperone as mentioned here Chaperone Setup Using Ubuntu 14.04 for setting up development environment. However, I am stuck at step "Setup the DE with basic tools". When i execute command cd…
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vSphere client and vSphere web client show different information

We are using vsphere version 5.5 and recently came up with issue when analyzing some VMs against their Configured OS and Installed OS discrepancies on vCenter. For example: Lets assume "XYZ" VM has Windows server 2012 R2 (64bit) installed. If I…
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How to get all volumes attached with vm in vphere in java api?

image of vm description, I can see 2 hard disk is being used by VM How can I get list of all volumes attached with VM in vSphere using java api.
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How to control vmware tools installation with salt-cloud using vmware provider

Imagine a salt master with salt-cloud configuration and a base image included in vmware which should be cloned (just a fresh installed system, without vmware tools installed). The vmware cloud provider automatically wants to install the vmware…
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Installing VMware Tools on virtual machines using Ansible

I am trying to install VMware Tools on various OS on my guest machines. This is the code I have now. --- - hosts: all tasks: - name: debian | installing open-vm-tools apt: name=open-vm-tools state=present when:…
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Installing vmware tools on a windows vm using ansible

I am trying to install vmware tools on a guest vm using ansible. Most of the examples I have seen online have been on linux using open-vm-tools. This an example below. - name: debian | installing open-vm-tools apt: name=open-vm-tools…
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vsphere HA - VM Monitoring doesn't work

I am looking for the VM Monitoring functionality in vsphere 6.0, I have followed some instruction found, but after all required steps to enable this functionality I don't know why I don't see the expected behavior: "On" vSphere HA Installed VMWare…
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How to update vmware tools inside VM when there is an update?

We are making some product that ships with some version of vmware tools and based on Ubuntu 12.04. In our instances of OVA we don't give users ability to enter inside OS (They enter to CLI). So our users found that Vmware tools are out of date. How…
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How to list the cluster's id ?

how to get the cluster id in VMWARE PowerCLI or VMWARE SDK? I need to list the clusters and pick the id for a given cluster? Get-Datacenter or Get-Cluster
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Can you tell VMs vmtool status without powering on the machine?

If I look in the vsphere client at a VM that is powered off i can see VMware Tools reports Not running (out of date) However any scripts I have found using the API all seem to want the machine powered on to check that the machine is out of date.…
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How to connect cd/dvd drive to virtual machine from esxi shell

I am looking for a way to connect my cd/dvd(contians an iso) to virtualmachine which runs on esxi from esxi shell. vsphere client proivdes connect to cd/dvd option which i cannot do it because i have to run the command from esxi shell. I tried to…
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Windows XP black screen in VMWare Workstation 12

I have just installed VMWare Workstation 12, but since the VMWare Tools has been upgraded in the guest Windows XP, I can see only a black screen (the host is a Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 15 notebook). The booting process is visible, but the login…
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VMWare vix api - not logging in into Vitual machine

While powering up the virtual machine: var virtualMachine = host.Open("myVM.vmx"); virtualMachine.PowerOn(); virtualMachine.LoginInGuest("Administrator", "myPass"); everything gets stuck in the log in screen of the VM. Is it possible somehow to…
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