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CHAPTER 5 Setting Policies and Customizing VMware ACE
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Each command in the following table must be entered into the system console after
the VMware Tools command vmwtool. Use the following format:
vmwtool <command>
vmwtool Command Definition
help Displays a summary of VMware Tools commands and options in
a NetWare guest.
partitonlist Displays a list of all disk partitions in the virtual disk and whether
or not a partition can be shrunk.
shrink <partition> Shrinks the listed partitions. If no partitions are specified, then all
partitions in the virtual disk are shrunk.
The status of the shrink process appears at the bottom of the
system console.
devicelist Lists each removable device in the virtual machine, its device ID
and whether the device is enabled or disabled. Removable
devices include the virtual network adapter, CD-ROM and
floppy drives.
disabledevice <device
name>
Disables the specified device or devices in the virtual machine.
If no device is specified, then all removable devices in the virtual
machine are disabled.
enabledevice <device
name>
Enables the specified device or devices in the virtual machine. If
no device is specified, then all removable devices in the virtual
machine are enabled.
synctime [on|off] Lets you turn on or off synchronization of time in the guest
operating system with time on the host operating system. By
default, time synchronization is turned off.
Use this command without any options to view the current
time synchronization status.
You can synchronize the time in the guest operating system
with time on the host operating system only when the time in
the guest operating system is earlier than the time set in the
host.
idle [on|off] Lets you turn on or off the CPU idler. By default, the idler is
turned on. The CPU idler program is included in VMware Tools
for NetWare guests.
The idler program is needed because NetWare servers do not
idle the CPU when the operating system is idle. As a result, a
virtual machine takes CPU time from the host regardless of
whether the NetWare server software is idle or busy.