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Vmware tools is a package one can install in guest operating systems that run on a VMware host.

The tools provide more features such as:

  • drag and drop into VM
  • improved graphics performance
  • improved mouse performance

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ESXI: Get machine name from the virtual (within the) machine itself?

I looked and looked but probably overlooked . I have a vsphere cloud with over 300 virtual machines. Each machine name as it appears in the vsphere client is actually the hostname of each machine (I have done this manually). Those machines sometimes…
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Installing a package using SCCM fails with error 0x87D00324(-2016410844) but package is not installed

VMWare Tools are usually installed through SCCM and now the newer version will not be installed through SCCM on all machines. So for some I do have the following failure. The error code semes to be straight forward and after some research I found…
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VMWare Virtual Machines Black Console/APIPA

We seem to have some strange issues in our environment and haven't had great luck finding a root cause to the issue. So the problem typically lies when we upgrade systems (sometimes this happens overnight at random during our scheduled machine…
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VMware Tools - at closing Console session in VIClient it lock screen on my Windows 7 box

This is a vSphere 5.1. Windows 7 non-domain. All necessarily settings in guest Windows were changed to disable any auto-lock functionality. However, when I close VIClient (vSphere native client) Console session, it also lock my Windows session. When…
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VMWare tools not installing with an error

VMWare tools not installing on Ubuntu 12.04. I'm using Chef to manage the installation, but the Apt commands fail if run manually. I'm using the VMWare tool Debian repo. Example: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vmware-tools-source.list deb…
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Is it a bad idea to install the VMware Tools 5.1 latest on RHEL guests running on VMware ESXI 4.1?

We are planning to install a VMware Tools RPM package on 50+ virtual machines running RHEL. Does the version of VMware Tools matter? The standard documented method to install VMware Tools is using the perl script. Is it better to install a package…
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Can't install kernel-uek-headers for currently running kernel

I have just created a VM in VMWare and installed a minimal install of Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3. # cat /etc/oracle-release Oracle Linux Server release 6.3 It is running with the UEK kernel. # uname -r 2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64 When I try and…
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How to install VMware tools for Ubuntu 11.04 hosted on VMware ESXi?

I'm running Vmware ESX 4.1 and I have a development VM that I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04. Then I tried to re-install VMware Tools and some of the modules gave me an error and would not compile. As a result I'm having problems with…
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Find out if the OS is running in a virtual environment

Is there any way to find out if the linux i'm running (actually installing) is running in a VMWare machine. I need to disable ntp settings if the automated install is done on a virtual machine but keep them enabled if not. VMWare tools are not…
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VMWare tools on Ubuntu Server 10.10 kernel source problem

After install and running the vm-ware config, the config needs my kernel headers to compile some modules, ok, so I'll give it them, but it just won't work. It asks for the path of the directory of C header files that match my running kernel. If I…
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vmware workstation 16 cannot drag and drop or see shared folders w centos8 guest

I just installed VMWare Workstation 16.1 on my Windows 10 desktop and build a CentOS 8 guest. Guest has the latest VMWare Tools installed via yum (open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop 11.1.0.2). I cannot drag and drop nor see/mount any shared…
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vCenter Server crashed after improper removal of VMware tools on a client

We administer a small business network (3 Dell servers and about 20 Windows workstations). The installation is mostly Microsoft based Active Directory, Windows Servers, WSUS, etc. All machines and PCs have current VMware 6.5 and Microsoft…
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vmware tools not compatible with teamcity plugin when installed on mac os

Trying to setup the teamcity vmware plugin and using it to launch a mac os agent, I get this error in the agent log file - [2017-05-09 15:59:55,356] INFO - .vmware.VMWarePropertiesReader - Unable to locate vmware-rpctool. Looks like not a VMWare…
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EL 7.2 failing to run customization with open-vm-tools 9.10

Has anyone succeeded in running guest customizations with EL (RHEL or CentOS) 7.2 guests? The system is VMware vCloud Director 5.6.5 and VMware ESXi 5.5. v7.2 comes with open-vm-tools 9.10.2, which is supposed to include all necessary VMware Tools…
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RHEL6.1 VM machines frozen when a quiesced snapshot is created for backup purpose

My RHEL 6.1 virtual machines running on ESXi hosts 5.1.0 get frozen when the backup procedure tries to get a quiesced snapshot. I have to reset the virtual machines from VMware console. The tool used to quiesce the virtual machine is SYMCquiesce…
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