vmware-open-vm-tools
Tools for VMWare guest VM to enhance host-guest integration
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.
open-vm-tools enables the following features in VMware products:
The ability to perform virtual machine power operations gracefully.
Execution of VMware provided or user configured scripts in guests during various power operations.
The ability to run programs, commands and file system operation in guests to enhance guest automation.
Authentication for guest operations.
Periodic collection of network, disk, and memory usage information from the guest.
Generation of heartbeat from guests to hosts so VMware's HA solution can determine guests' availability.
Clock synchronization between guests and hosts or client desktops.
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.
The ability to customize guest operating systems immediately after powering on virtual machines.
Enabling shared folders between host and guest file systems on VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.
Copying and pasting text, graphics, and files between guests and hosts or client desktops.
- Versions: 12.3.0
- Website: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
- Licenses: GPL 2
- Package source: gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
- Builds: See build status
- Issues: See known issues
Installation
Install the latest version of vmware-open-vm-tools as follows:
guix install vmware-open-vm-tools
Or install a particular version:
guix install vmware-open-vm-tools@12.3.0
You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.
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