Specifications

Basic System Administration
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 Asetofscriptsthathelpsyoutoautomateguestoperatingsystemoperations.The
scriptsrunwhenthevirtualmachine’spowerstatechangesifyouconfigurethem
todoso.
 TheVMwareuserprocess(VMwareUser.exeonWindowsguestsorvmware-user
onLinuxandSolarisguests),whichenablesyoutocopyandpastetextbetweenthe
guestandmanagedhostoperatingsystems.
OnLinuxandSolarisguests,thisprocesscontrolsgrabbingandreleaseingthe
mousecursorwhentheSVGAdriverisnot
installed.
TheVMwareToolsuserprocessisnotinstalledonNetWareoperatingsystems.
Instead,thevmwtoolprogramisinstalled.Itcontrolsthegrabbingandreleasingof
themousecursor.Italsoallowsyoucopyandpastetext.
YoucanoptionallyinstallWYSEMultimediaRedirector,whichimprovesstreaming
videoperformanceinWindows
guestoperatingsystemsrunningonWYSEthinclient
devices.
ConfiguretheguestoperatingsystembeforeinstallingorreinstallingVMwareTools.
ThisenablesVMwaretoolstodeterminethecorrectmouseconfigurationandmodule
configuration.
VMwareToolshasthefollowinglimitations:
 Shrinkdiskisnotsupported.
 ForMicrosoftWindowsNT,thedefaultscriptsforsuspendandresumedonot
work.
 ThemousedriverinstallationfailsinXwindowsversionsearlierthan4.2.0.
Thissectionincludesthefollowinginformation:
 “DisplayingtheVMwareToolsPropertiesDialogBox”onpage 162
 “VMwareToolsUpgrades”onpage 163
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OTEIftheguestoperatingsystemisinstalledbutnotcorrectlyconfiguredwhenyou
installVMwareTools,theVMwareToolsinstallationdoesnotworkcorrectly.Thiscan
causetheguestoperatingsystemtocrash.
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OTEIfyoudonothaveVMwareToolsinstalledinyourvirtualmachine,youcannot
usetheshutdownorrestartoptions.YoucanuseonlythePoweroptions.Ifyouwant
toshutdowntheguestoperatingsystem,shutitdownfromwithinthevirtualmachine
consolebeforeyoupoweroff
thevirtualmachine.