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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-toolbox-cmd Command not found

I'm working with a Redhat VM that indicates VMware Tools OSPs is installed and running, since its VMware Tools status in vSphere is "Running (3rd-party/Independent)". I have also verified that the VMware Tools daemon, vmtoolsd, is running by…
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Workstatin 11 Vmware tool on Centos 7 guest

I installed kernel-headers package and VMware-tool installer still complains about not valid path for kernel header files no matter what path I put…
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Can I copy files to a VM when I used ESX?

I use ESX infrastructure and installed VM Tools on my VM. When I used VM Workstation I could copy files and text between my computer to the VM that run on it. Can I do the same when the VM placed on ESX server and not on my computer? (With VM Tools…
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VMware tools installation (Shared Folders) on Arch Linux

I'm using VMware Workstation 10.0.1 and Windows 7 32 bit. I'm trying to install VMware Tools on Arch Linux to Share Folder between Windows host and Arch Linux guest. Here is the details of my machine uname -a Linux archlinux 3.18.2-2-ARCH #1 SMP…
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vsphere OSP tools for rhel/centos 6x error downloading

I just want to ask if you guys also experience the same issue as i do. From time to time vmware OSP have some issues with the packages. Today is that kind of day. the Yum update shows that there are updates for the vmware osp repo. …
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Location of GCC binary in installing VM tools

I am trying to install VM tools in Debian linux which is having trouble finding the gcc binaries. I am trying to install the binaries, as shown in selected answer on this page: installing vmware tools: location of GCC binary? However, in these…
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Linux kernel modules

I've not clear what is the difference between drivers that can be "embedded" inside a monolithic kernel and drivers available only as external modules. What kind of effort is requested to "port" some driver (provided as "external module" only) to a…
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Install different versions of VM tools

Can we install different version of "VM toos" in a same image? "Different version" means linux version and windows version. The context of this question is: We need to create a new VM image on Windows platforms, during this procedure, we need to…
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FATAL: Module sg not found

When I was installing uptime monitoring agent, I got the error messages: Probing 'sg' devices FATAL: Module sg not found. But lsmod shows the sg module is loaded: # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago) #…
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Is it possible to create a linked clone of only a .vmdk file in vmware

I want a programatic way to create a virtual machine with multiple delta.vmdk disks that all point back to an original disk of data. I know you can create clones and snapshots that do this, but I have not figured out how to have the disks all on…
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buildroot compile of open vm tools

I was trying to compile open-vm-toos package (9.0.0-782409) under buildroot env and it fails in one file. Below is log of the error. I narrowed it down on something to do with locale includes. Tried to doff standard locale includes vs those…
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vmrun tool usage

I have a vb script (that sets up the IIS). I need to run this vbscript inside the guest VM, from the Host box. How do i do this? I am tol vmrun.exe can do this. Any samples to get this done would be great help. I am running VMWare server 2 in host.
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how run a command on Oracle VM

We have oracle virtual machine installed in our solaris machine. (we need waptpro tool which can be installed only on windows). So, we have this tool installed on oracle virtual machine. Now I have a java code on my solaris machine. I need to…
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Possibility to Run vmware_vm_shell using Powershell as Administrator

I feel frustated to find out if ansible module vmware_vm_shell is possible to run powershell as administrator? because few command that need to run with powershell has to be elevated to administrator role. Why i didn't use win_shell, or win_psexec?…
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vmware tools is not working properly, I cannot share folder in my virtual machine ubuntu

I am using windows XP, I created a virtual machine using VMware player and installed Ubuntu in it. I want to have a shared folder between windows and my virtual machine, so I installed VMware tools, enabled the shared folders and named them.…
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