最後更新: 2022-06-16

目錄

• Ubuntu 14.04
  Ubuntu 12.04
• Centos
  Centos 8
  Centos 7
  Centos 6
• Windows
• Compile
• Doc

前言

VMware Tar Tool for Linux virtual machine is feature-frozen at version 10.3.10

之後被 Open VM Tools 取代了它 Link

功能

• power operations gracefully
• Execution of VMware provided or user configured scripts in guests
• Authentication for guest operations
• Periodic collection of network, disk, and memory usage information from the guest
• Generation of heartbeat from guests to hosts
• Clock synchronization between guests and hosts
• Quiescing guest file systems to allow hosts to capture file-system-consistent guest snapshots
• Execution of pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts while quiescing guest file systems
• Enabling shared folders between host and guest file systems on VMware Workstation
• Copying and pasting text, graphics, and files between guests and hosts

 

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Ubuntu 14.04

 

install

apt-get install open-vm-tools

binary

/usr/bin/vmware-checkvm
/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd
/usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
/usr/bin/vmware-vmblock-fuse
/usr/bin/vmware-xferlogs
/usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient
/usr/bin/vmtoolsd
/usr/bin/vmware-rpctool

/sbin/mount.vmhgfs
/sbin/vmware-hgfsmounter

upstart

/etc/init.d/open-vm-tools

config

/etc/vmware-tools

checking

vmware-checkvm

VMware software version 6 (good)

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Ubuntu 12.04

 

install

apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-dkms

 

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Centos

 

Centos 8

dnf install open-vm-tools      # repo: appstream

systemctl enable vmtoolsd

systemctl start vmtoolsd

ps aux | grep vmtoolsd

Centos 7

yum install open-vm-tools

systemctl start vmtoolsd

systemctl enable vmtoolsd

ps aux | grep vmtoolsd

Centos 6

# epel package

yum install open-vm-tools

獲得

• /usr/bin/vm-support
• /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
• /usr/bin/vmware-checkvm
• /usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient
• /usr/bin/vmware-rpctool
• /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd
• /usr/bin/vmware-xferlogs

service vmtoolsd start

chkconfig vmtoolsd on

 

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Windows

 

 

vmware tools installer 找不到 msi

Fix:

setup64.exe /a

wizard 會問 install 到那裡, 之後在目錄內有 msi 了

 

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Compile

 

DL Source:

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

 * Centos 6 -  open-vm-tools 10.1.5

Tools

yum install gcc autoconf automake libtool

# EPEL

yum install libmspack libmspack-devel

yum install glib2 glib2-devel

autoreconf -i --force

./configure --prefix=/opt/open-vm-tools

make

make install

ldconfig

 

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Doc

 

http://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools