What is Open-vm-Tools-desktop?

The open-vm-tools-desktop package is optional and includes additional user programs and libraries to improve the interactive functionality of desktop operations of your virtual machines. The package enables you to resize a guest display to match its host console window or the VMware Remote Console Window for vSphere.

How do I open the vm tool service?

You can start, stop or restart the Open VMtools Service via Webmin’s (https://[InformaCast IP addr]:10000) System | Bootup and Shutdown page or by using the vmtools-service [start stop restart] CLI command.

How do I install Open VMware tools on my desktop?

Procedure

1. Make sure the package index is updated: sudo apt-get update.
2. The command to install and upgrade are the same. If the VM has a GUI (X11, and so on), install or upgrade open-vm-tools-desktop: sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop.
3. Otherwise, install open-vm-tools: sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools.

Should I use open vm tools or VMware tools?

In a nutshell: if a Linux distribution provides open-vm-tools from the distribution’s standard repository and that distribution/release is supported by VMware, VMware supports and actually prefers you to use that. For older releases that don’t include open-vm-tools just use vmware-tools just as before.

What are VM tools?

VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of guests operating systems and seamless user interactions with them. VMware Tools has the ability to: Run scripts that help automate guest operating system operations.

How do I open VMware tools in Windows?

Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel or Start > Control Panel, depending on the version of Windows you are using, locate the VMware Tools icon and double-click it to change settings for VMware Tools. You can also reactivate the system tray icon. On the Options tab, select Show VMware Tools in the taskbar.

What is VMware tools used for?

VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of guests operating systems and seamless user interactions with them. VMware Tools has the ability to: Pass messages from the host operating system to the guest operating system.

How do I manually start VMware tools?

SOLUTION: To manually start the VMware Tools Installer: Choose Settings > Cancel VMware Tools Install. Choose Settings > VMware Tools Install, then click the Install button in the dialog box that appears. The installer should start installing VMware Tools on the Windows guest.

How do I install VMware tools?

To install VMware Tools, follow this procedure:

1. Start the virtual machine.
2. On the menu of the VMware console window, choose Player→Manage→Install VMware Tools. The dialog box shown here appears.
3. Click Download and Install.
4. Follow the instructions in the Setup program to install the VMware tools.

How do I download VMware tools ISO?

Manually Download VMware tools ISO image from VMware

1. Select the ESXi version here.
2. Supported Guest operating systems.
3. Select the OS architecture.
4. Download and install it.

How do I know if I have VMware tools in RHEL 7?

Verifying a VMware Tools build version (1003947)

1. From the Console, run the vmware-toolbox command from terminal and click About.
2. To determine the vmware-tools version, run the command: vmware-toolbox-cmd -v.

What is VMware Tools for Windows?

VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machines guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionality.

What are open vm tools and how to use them?

Most of the Linux distributions ship two open-vm-tools packages, “open-vm-tools” and “open-vm-tools-desktop”. “open-vm-tools” is the core package without any dependencies on X libraries and “open-vm-tools-desktop” is an additional package with dependencies on “open-vm-tools” core package and X libraries.

Why do I need the vm tools package?

The package enables you to resize a guest display to match with its host console window or the VMware Remote Console Window for vSphere. The package also allows you to copy and paste between host and guest OSs as well as to drag and drop between guests and a host for the VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion products.

Can a vCenter Server install open vm tools?

And when clicking the More info link you’ll get this message saying that “A VMware Tools implementation is installed on the guest operating system, but it is not managed by VMware. the VMware tools status is unknown.” vCenter Server cannot be used to install upgrades of open-vm-tools in your VMs.

How to install VMware Tools in openSUSE Linux?

Once you have installed VMware Tools on Linux, you can check the version of VMware Tools installed with the command: Note: In OpenSuSE Linux, you can download the fresh VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) installation package in the ymp format (YaST meta package) or directly download the binary packages in the rpm format from the OpenSUSE web site.