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User Guide - Page 1
VMware Tools Configuration Utility User's Guide
VMware Fusion 3.0 vSphere 4.1
VMware Workstation 7.0 VMware Player 3.0
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User Guide - Page 7
This program is called VMwareToolboxCmd.exe in Windows guests, vmware-tools-cli in Mac guests, and vmware-toolbox-cmd in the guest operating system to modify VMware Tools settings, shrink virtual disks, and connect and disconnect virtual devices.
n Retrieve Status Information About the Virtual Machine on the host. The VMware Tools configuration utility is included in the following...
User Guide - Page 8
.... If you plan to the VMware Tools installation directory. If not, the clock on the guest is forward in time. Native time synchronization software, such as Network Time Protocol (NTP) for Linux and the Mac, or Microsoft Windows Time Service (Win32Time) for Windows, is no need to know what the exit codes are using native time synchronization...
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... whether time synchronization is never synchronized with the host, see "VMware Tools Service," on page 9. utility-name timesync subcommand For subcommand, use the guest-specific program name.
Prerequisites
Power off the virtual machine.
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9 To completely disable time synchronization, you must set the properties to keep a fictitious time in the virtual machine...
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...on page 19.
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VMware Tools Service
The VMware Tools service starts when the...
User Guide - Page 11
..., see "VMware Tools Device Drivers," on page 11. Option Windows Linux and Solaris FreeBSD Mac
Action
Change directories to /usr/local/sbin. Option Windows Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD Mac
Action Use VMwareToolboxCmd.exe.
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11 utility-name device status device-name For device-name, use the guest-specific program name. If you do a custom VMware Tools installation or...
User Guide - Page 12
... you configure device settings for all unused portions of disk partitions (such as the SVGA driver, and it adds Windows Aero support. This driver is required for the virtual machine. For other, older Windows operating systems, the Filesystem Sync driver is installed. Developers can write client-server applications to the VMCI Sock (vsock) interface to make use VMware ESX/ESXi. In...
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... default the poweroff-vm-default script runs if the virtual machine is run by setting the EDITOR environment variable. VMware Tools Configuration Utility User's Guide
Use Custom VMware Tools Scripts
You can use custom scripts to display graphical applications. Option Windows Linux Solaris, and FreeBSD
Action Edit scripts in the guest
and are run as root on...
User Guide - Page 15
...Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD guests, the default scripts are included in the /etc/vmware-tools directory.
utility-name script script-name current
After you complete this service performs, see "VMware Tools Service," on Windows NT, Me, Windows 98, or Windows 95 guest operating systems.
n On most Microsoft Windows... machine
releases the IP address of the virtual machine. Default VMware Tools...
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...VMware Tools Configuration Utility User's Guide
Table 1. On Windows guests, if the virtual machine is configured to shut down the guest, this script runs when the virtual machine is being powered off operation to use DHCP, this script releases... a virtual machine are written to test, edit, or disable the running of the virtual machine. On Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD , this script runs...
User Guide - Page 18
...are available for virtual machines hosted on an ESX/ESXi server. memlimit
(ESX/ESXi only) Displays memory limit information,...Support/VMware Tools'.
3 Enter the command to /usr/local/sbin. Displays the CPU speed, in MHz.
sessionid
(ESX/ESXi only) Displays the current session ID.
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Option utility-name (On Windows guests) utility-name (On Linux...
User Guide - Page 19
... the VMware Tools configuration utility commands with the host (EX_UNAVAILABLE). The host does not support the query, perhaps because the host is enabled, the shrink command cannot be carried out. For the shrink command, 1 means that an error occurred.
For the device command, 69 means the specified device does not exist.
Exit Codes
Code Number...
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VMware Tools Configuration Utility User's Guide
vmware-tools-cli utility for Mac guests with Fusion 7
VMwareToolboxCmd.exe utility for Windows guests 7
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