Additionally, VMware Tools is available as a standalone installation package, which can be downloaded from their official website.Īccording to VMware documentation, VMware Tools should be installed in all VMs running on the ESXi host for increasing VM performance, improving the administration of guest OS, and ensuring error-free user interactions. Typically, VMware Tools can be installed and upgraded automatically using vSphere Client. VMware Tools comes along with ESXi deployment, which simplifies the process of their installation and upgrade. Automating guest OS processes and streamlining VM power operations using existing or custom scripts.Achieving integration of guest OSes into your vCenter Server as well as other VMware products and services.Ensuring seamless interaction between the system components.Enabling time synchronization between the guest OS and the host.Taking quiesced snapshots of the guest OS.Copy-and-paste as well as drag-and-drop features that are not workingĪdditionally, VMware Tools can be used for:.Inaccurate display of network speed values.In addition, VMware Tools can help resolve the following issues: VMware Tools is a set of drivers and utilities which enable improved performance of your VM’s guest OS as well as smooth communication between the guest and host OSes. To fully understand how VMware Tools can increase your VM productivity, we need to discuss what is included in this utilities suite and what each of its components can bring to your environment. Of course, most people are curious to see Aero Glass running, but that’s just not going to happen with it’s emulated 16MB SVGA card… That aside however, performance is half decent, especially compared to build 5270.Even though a guest OS can run without installing VMware Tools, you can definitely benefit from this high-level functionality in a number of ways. Hoooowever, with a quick install of VMWare Tools and a reboot, I was faced with something better… However, as this is being installed in VMWare, graphics were a bit of an issue… Installation was certainly quicker than previous builds, but still some way from Microsoft’s mooted 20mins… I was done within 40mins which wasn’t bad really. All was fine so restarted the VM and launched Setup again… Once the disk has formatted, I created a text file, just to be sure the VM could write to it correctly. Type the following, pressing ‘Enter’ after each command: This is pretty well documented on t’interweb but here’s my experiences… This meant a bit of fun with ‘DISKPART’ prior to installation.
The current build of Vista (as per previous builds) has issues to writing to empty disks. Then mounted the ISO, booted from CD and started setup.įirst grumble – Setup is NOT pretty when running this way…
I created a new VM with a 16GB disk and 512mb RAM. Initial thoughts – Well, after making the somewhat lunatic decision to install build 5270 onto my work laptop (which subsequently died) I thought I’d play it safe this time and attempt installation in VMWare Workstation. Anyway, I’ve only just gotten around to installing it… So after the fun of trying to downloading the Feb CTP of Vista through Wibble’s crappy internet connection, I gave up and downloaded it at home.