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Chapter 10 Creating Virtual Machines
3Topoweronyourvirtualmachine,clickthePowerOnbutton.
Whenavirtualmachineispoweredon,agreenrightarrowisdisplayednexttothe
virtualmachineiconintheinventorylist,andtheoptionsintheCommandspanel
changeasshowninthefollowingimage:
4Followtheinstructionsprovided
bytheoperatingsystemvendor.
Tocustomizeaguestoperatingsystem,see“CustomizingGuestOperating
Systems”onpage 215.
Installing and Upgrading VMware Tools
VMwareToolsisasuiteofutilitiesthatenhancestheperformanceofthevirtual
machine’sguestoperatingsystemandimprovesmanagementofthevirtualmachine.
InstallingVMwareToolsintheguestoperatingsystemisvital.Althoughtheguest
operatingsystemcanrunwithoutVMwareTools,youloseimportantfunctionalityand
convenience.
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WhenyouinstallVMwareTools,youinstall:
 TheVMwareToolsservice(VMwareService.exeonWindowsguestsor
vmware-guestdonLinuxandSolarisguests).Thisservicesynchronizesthetime
intheguestoperatingsystemwiththetimeinthehostoperatingsystem.On
Windowsguests,italsocontrolsgrabbingandreleaseingthemousecursor.
 AsetofVMwaredevicedrivers,includinganSVGAdisplaydriver,thevmxnet
networkingdriverforsomeguestoperatingsystems,theBusLogicSCSIdriverfor
someguestoperatingsystems,thememorycontroldriverforefficientmemory
allocationbetweenvirtualmachines,thesyncdrivertoquiesceI/Ofor
ConsolidatedBackup,andthe
VMwaremousedriver.
 TheVMwareToolscontrolpanel,whichletsyoumodifysettings,shrinkvirtual
disks,andconnectanddisconnectvirtualdevices.