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Installing and Configuring VMware Tools
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About Installing and Configuring VMware Tools 5

1 Components of VMware Tools 7
VMware Tools Service 7 VMware Tools Device Drivers 8 VMware User Process 9

2 Installing and Upgrading VMware Tools 11

Installing VMware Tools 11 Upgrading VMware Tools 12 Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Windows Virtual Machine 13 Automate the Installation of VMwareTools in a Windows Virtual Machine 14 Names of VMware Tools Components Used in Silent Installations 15 Suppress Prompts About Unsigned Drivers on Pre-Windows Vista Operating Systems 17 Add VMware as a Trusted Publisher to Suppress Driver Prompts 17 Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine 18 Operating System Specific Packages for Linux Guest Operating Systems 20 ManuallyInstall or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Solaris Virtual Machine 20 Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a FreeBSD Virtual Machine 22 Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine 23 Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Mac OS X Virtual Machine 24

3 Repairing, Changing, and Uninstalling VMware Tools Components 25
Repair or Change Modules in Windows VirtualMachines 25 Uninstall VMware Tools 26 Start the VMware User Process Manually If You Do Not Use a Session Manager 27

4 Using the VMware Tools Configuration Utility 29

Configure Time Synchronization Between Guest and Host Operating Systems Disable Time Synchronization Completely 31 Connect or Disconnect a Virtual Device 32 Shrink a Virtual Disk 33 Use Custom VMware Tools Scripts 34 DefaultVMware Tools Scripts 36 Disable a VMware Tools Script 37 Execute Commands During Power Off or Reset of a Virtual Machine 38 Retrieve Status Information About the Virtual Machine 38 Subcommands for the stat Command 39 Exit Codes 39

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5 Using Other Methods to Configure VMware Tools 41

Configuring VMware Tools from Within VMwareProducts 41 Using vmwtool to Configure VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine 42

6 Security Considerations for Configuring VMware Tools 43
Index 47

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Installing and Configuring VMware Tools provides information about using the various VMware products to install, upgrade, and configure VMware Tools. VMware Tools is asuite of utilities that you install in the operating system of a virtual machine. VMware Tools enhances the performance of a virtual machine and makes possible many of the ease-of-use features in VMware products. For example, the following features are just some of the features that are available only if VMware Tools is installed:
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