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Table Of Contents
VMware Server User’s Guide
122 VMware, Inc.
“A d d i n g HardwaretoaVirtualMachine”onpage 137
“InstallingNewSoftwareinaVirtualMachine”onpage 138
“A d va n c e d OptionsforApplicationDevelopers”onpage 139
Running VMware Tools
Forimprovedguestoperatingsystemperformanceandvirtualmachinemanagement,
makesurethatVMwareToolsisinstalledandrunninginyourvirtualmachine.See
Chapter 5,“InstallingandUsingVMwareTools,”onpage 73.
AfterVMwareToolsisinstalledinaWindowsvirtualmachine,theVMwareTools
servicesstartwhenyoustartthe
guestoperatingsystem.TheVMwareToolsicon
appearsintheguest’snotificationarea,unlessyoudisabletheicon.
OnWindowsguests,iftheVMwareToolsiconincludesayellowcautionicon,an
updateisavailable.Toperformtheupdate,doubleclicktheicon,andclicktheUpdate
buttonontheOptions
tabthatappears.
IftheVMwareToolsiconappearswitharedcircleandslashoverit,theVMwareTools
serviceisnotrunning.Tostarttheservice,selectRunfromtheWindowsStartmenu,
andenterservices.msc.Inthewindowthatappears,starttheservicecalled
VMware ToolsService.
Ifthe
VMwareToolsicondoesnotappearinthenotificationareaoftheWindows
guest’staskbar,usetheVMwareToolscontrolpanelintheguesttodisplayit.See
“UsingtheWindowsControlPaneltoDisplaytheTaskbarIcon”onpage 92.
TochangeotherVMwareToolsproperties,see“UsingtheVMwareTools
Control
Panelonpage 91.Formoreinformationabouttheproperties,clickHelp.
Changing the Power State of a Virtual Machine
YoucanuseVIWebAccesstochangethepowerstateofthevirtualmachine.
Tochangeavirtualmachine’spowerstate,dooneofthefollowing:
SelectthevirtualmachinefromtheInventorypanel,andclickthebuttoninthe
toolbarforthedesiredpowerstate.
FromthehostworkspaceVirtualMachinestab,selectthevirtualmachine,and
clickthebuttoninthetoolbarforthedesiredpowerstate.
VMware Tools icon