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It is recommended that open-vm-tools be used for the Linux distributions where open-vm-tools is available. VMware Tools will continue to be available under a commercial license. Will there be continued support for VMware Tools and OSP?

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The vmhgfs driver was required for enabling shared folders feature, but is superseded by vmhgfs-fuse which does not require a kernel driver.

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Linux kernel versions 3.10 and later include all of the Linux drivers present in open-vm-tools except the vmhgfs driver. Note that the open-vm-tools packages available with Linux distributions do not include Linux drivers because Linux drivers are available as part of Linux kernel itself. There may be additional packages, please refer to the documentation of the OS vendor. The "open-vm-tools-sdmp" package contains a plugin for Service Discovery. "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. NOTE: Most of the Linux distributions ship two or more open-vm-tools packages. Installing open-vm-tools from the Linux vendor's repository reduces virtual machine downtime because future updates to open-vm-tools are included with the OS maintenance patches and updates.

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If open-vm-tools is not installed automatically, you may be able to manually install it from the guest OS vendor's public repository. For information about OS compatibility for open-vm-tools, see theĪutomatic installation of open-vm-tools along with the OS installation eliminates the need to separately install open-vm-tools in guests. All leading Linux vendors support open-vm-tools and bundle it with their products. Please refer to VMware KB article for details. open-vm-tools packages for user space components are available with new versions of major Linux distributions, and are installed as part of the OS installation in several cases. Is open-vm-tools available with Linux distributions?

Clients and servers for shared folders support.

The guest SDK libraries to provide information about virtual machines to guests.

The toolbox command to perform disk wiping and shrinking, manage power scripts, and time synchronization.

The ResolutionSet plugin to adjust guest screen resolutions automatically based on window sizes.

The dndcp plugin to support drag and drop, and text and file copy/paste operations.

The TimeSync plugin to perform time synchronization.

The GuestInfo plugin to periodically collect various statistics from guests.

The VIX plugin to run programs and commands, and perform file system operations in guests.

The PowerOps plugin to perform graceful power operation and run power scripts.

The memory balloon driver for reclaiming memory from guests.

Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD drivers for various devices and file system access.

The following components have been released as open source software:

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Copying and pasting text, graphics, and files between guests and hosts or client desktops.Ĭan you provide more details on the actual code being released?.

Enabling shared folders between host and guest file systems on VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.

The ability to customize guest operating systems immediately after powering on virtual machines.

Execution of pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts while quiescing guest file systems.

Quiescing guest file systems to allow hosts to capture file-system-consistent guest snapshots.

Clock synchronization between guests and hosts or client desktops.

Generation of heartbeat from guests to hosts so VMware's HA solution can determine guests' availability.

Periodic collection of network, disk, and memory usage information from the guest.

The ability to run programs, commands and file system operation in guests to enhance guest automation.

Execution of VMware provided or user configured scripts in guests during various power operations.

The ability to perform virtual machine power operations gracefully.

Open-vm-tools enables the following features in VMware products: It includes kernel modules for enhancing the performance of virtual machines running Linux or other VMware supported Unix like guest operating systems. Open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests. General What is the open-vm-tools project?