VMware Tools is a suite of utilities and drivers installed inside the guest operating system of a VM. Without it, a VM runs on generic, fallback drivers that offer poor video resolution, sluggish network performance, incorrect time synchronization, and no ability to perform graceful shutdowns or quiesced snapshots.
After installation, a reboot is typically required to load the new drivers. vmware tools iso
: For supported Linux distributions with glibc 2.5 or later. darwin.iso : For macOS guests. Installation Methods VMware Tools is a suite of utilities and
esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/VMware-Tools-xxx.iso a VM runs on generic
The is a virtual CD-ROM image containing the installation binaries for various operating systems. VMware distributes Tools as an ISO for several pragmatic reasons:
For Debian/Ubuntu:
Get-VM "MyVM" | Mount-Tools -Confirm:$false