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Procedure
1 Open a command prompt or terminal in the guest operating system.
2 Change to the VMware Tools installation directory.
Operating System Default Path
Windows
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools
Linux and Solaris
/usr/sbin
FreeBSD
/usr/local/sbin
Mac OS X
/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools
3 Type the command to display the status information.
utility-name stat subcommand
Option Action
utility-name (On Windows)
Use VMwareToolboxCmd.exe.
utility-name (On Linux, Solaris, and
FreeBSD)
Use vmware-toolbox-cmd.
utility-name (On Mac OS X)
Use vmware-tools-cli.
subcommand
Use hosttime or speed, or, if applicable, one of the subcommands available
for virtual machines hosted in a vSphere environment.
Subcommands for the stat Command
You can use the stat command to display information such as host time and CPU speed. Additional
subcommands are available for virtual machines in a vSphere environment.
Table 4-2. Subcommands for the stat Command
Subcommand Name Description
hosttime
Displays the date and time on the host.
speed
Displays the CPU speed, in MHz.
balloon
(vSphere only) Displays the amount of memory that is
currently reclaimed from the virtual machine through
ballooning, in megabytes.
swap
(vSphere only) Displays the current amount of memory
swapped out to the virtual machine's swap file, in
megabytes.
memlimit
(vSphere only) Displays memory limit information, in
megabytes.
memres
(vSphere only) Displays memory reservation information, in
megabytes.
cpures
(vSphere only) Displays CPU reservation information, in
MHz.
cpulimit
(vSphere only) Displays CPU limit information, in MHz.
sessionid
(vSphere only) Displays the current session ID.
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