Copying and pasting text, graphics, and files between guests and hosts or client desktops.Ĭan you provide more details on the actual code being released?.Enabling shared folders between host and guest file systems on VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.The ability to customize guest operating systems immediately after powering on virtual machines.Execution of pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts while quiescing guest file systems.
Quiescing guest file systems to allow hosts to capture file-system-consistent guest snapshots.Clock synchronization between guests and hosts or client desktops.Generation of heartbeat from guests to hosts so VMware's HA solution can determine guests' availability.Periodic collection of network, disk, and memory usage information from the guest.
The ability to run programs, commands and file system operation in guests to enhance guest automation.Execution of VMware provided or user configured scripts in guests during various power operations.The ability to perform virtual machine power operations gracefully.Open-vm-tools enables the following features in VMware products:
It includes kernel modules for enhancing the performance of virtual machines running Linux or other VMware supported Unix like guest operating systems. Open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests.
- Typically, I run 4 to 6 VMs (1 Win 10 Pro, the rest Win 10 Home 32bits) on this host.General What is the open-vm-tools project?.
- I have made enough copies of backup to waste my earlier effort.
- Has anyone tried X570 Hardware RAID over VMware? Any input much appreciated. I am now thinking of using the built-in Hardware RAID 1 as alternative. While it is able to peak around 110 to 120 MB/s, it average only 25 MB/s. After having it setup with 2 of the SSDs setup on Windows software mirror RAID, I find the writing speed extremely slow. With IOMMU, I am able to Passthrough one of NVMe drive as planned and with vmkfstools another 3 SATA SSDs to a Windows 10 PRO VM which also serves as light duty files sharing host via Local Users and Groups setting. For my purpose, Data transfer rate is most critical while graphic and processing power are less critical. I am pleased to share that I had just built a light duty server based VMware ESXi 6.5 U2 (chosen because 1 of the NVMe drive cannot be recognised by ESXi 6.7 or 7.0) on Asrock X570 Steel Legend, Ryzen 5 3600, and a simple GPU (GTX570Ti - not for Passthrough). Glad to have found this group first of all.