Virtualization Essentials

Using Virtual Machine Tools

As part of preparing a virtual machine for use, you installed the VMware Tools. VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that not only improves the performance of a virtual machine, but also improves the user experience by providing capabilities that are not available without them. Without these tools installed, the guest operating system works, just not as smoothly as it does with the tools. VMware Tools is actually deployed as three separate parts: an operating system service, a set of enhanced device drivers, and a user process for better user experience. In a Windows operating system, VMware Tools Service is deployed as the Windows service vmtoolssd.exe. On Linux systems, it is the daemon vmtoolsd. Both start when ...