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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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... Utility User's Guide
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... Utility 7
Configure Time Synchronization Between Guest and Host 8 Disable Time Synchronization Completely 9 VMware Tools Service 10
Connect or Disconnect a Virtual Device 10 VMware Tools Device Drivers 11
Shrink a Virtual Disk 12 Use Custom VMware Tools Scripts 14
Default VMware Tools Scripts 15 Disable a VMware Tools Script 16 Retrieve Status Information About the Virtual Machine 17 Subcommands...
User Guide - Page 5
... comments, send your suggestions for anyone who want to automate configuration of VMware Tools by writing their own scripts.
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User Guide - Page 8
... turn on periodic time synchronization, VMware Tools sets the time of the guest operating system to be either forward or backward in the guest. 2 Change to /usr/local/sbin.
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...VMware Tools Service," on page 10.
Disable Time Synchronization Completely
If you must set the properties to FALSE.
To completely disable time synchronization, you complete this service... For subcommand, use the guest-specific program name. Disabling periodic time synchronization does not disable all VMware Tools time synchronization. VMware, Inc.
9 utility-name timesync...
User Guide - Page 10
... of the processes that sends a heartbeat to the VMware product to know what the exit codes are not supported for guest-bound calls created with the time on ESX...the host to script the commands used by certain backup applications. VMware Tools Configuration Utility User's Guide
VMware Tools Service
The VMware Tools service starts when the guest operating system boots. n In Linux, ...
User Guide - Page 11
... the guest-specific program name. After you complete this procedure, the device is connected.
Which drivers are included with VMware Tools:
SVGA driver
This virtual driver enables 32-bit displays, high display resolution, and significantly faster graphics performance. The following device drivers are installed when you install VMware Tools, a virtual SVGA driver replaces the default VGA...
User Guide - Page 12
..., which provides the best performance for information on Linux and Solaris, is available and recommended if you install VMware Tools, a VMXNet NIC driver replaces the default vlance driver.
The vmxnet and vmxnet3 networking drivers improve network performance. The virtual mouse driver improves mouse performance. The host-guest file system module, called hgfs.sys on Windows guests and...
User Guide - Page 14
...Codes," on Mac guests.
Change directories to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools.
Option Windows Linux and Solaris FreeBSD
Action Change directories to /usr/local/sbin.
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Use Custom VMware... guest operating systems, if VMware Tools is set to edit a script, make sure xterm and vi are installed in the guest
and are...
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Action Use VMwareToolboxCmd.exe. utility-name script script-name set script-path For script-path, use the full path ...service performs, see "VMware Tools Service," on NetWare guests. For information about the additional functionality this procedure, the VMware Tools service... located in VMware Tools.
On Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD guests, the default scripts are located in part on Windows ...
User Guide - Page 18
...'/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools'.
3 Enter the command to /usr/local/sbin. Table 2.
sessionid
(ESX/ESXi only) Displays the current session ID.
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Option FreeBSD Mac
Action
Change directories to display the desired status information...
User Guide - Page 19
... to integrate the VMware Tools configuration utility commands with the host (EX_UNAVAILABLE).
For the device command, 69 means the specified device does not exist.
The host does not support the query, perhaps because the host is not an ESX host (EX_TEMPFAIL).
The file name does not exist.
Permission errors. Exit Codes
Code Number
Applicable Command...
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... 17, 18 suspend-vm-default script 15 SVGA drivers, virtual 11
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technical support 5 time synchronization 8, 9 timesync command 8
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USB devices, connecting 10
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virtual disks, shrinking 12 VMCI drivers 11 vmhgfs kernel module 11 vmtoolsd 10 VMware Tools scripts
custom 14 default 15 disabling 16 VMware Tools service 10 vmware-toolbox-cmd utility for 11 BusLogic SCSI adapters 11...
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