open-vm-tools

The open-vm-tools project provides a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the functionality and user experience of virtualization. The project currently runs in guest operating systems under VMware virtualization.

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BSD License, GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2), GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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zoon01 Posted 2016-03-01

Great software, thank you.
bsyarov Posted 2014-11-13

djinnii, deployment customization is available via open-vm-tools-deploypkg, which is what VMWare recommends installing on templates. e.g. Ubuntu 10.04 - partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/Ubuntu_14_04.html
djinnii Posted 2014-10-14

Unfortunately there's no support for guest customization, so this is not useful for deployment to vcloud instances. What's more disappointing is that VMWare states this is the supported & recommended version to use.
wupix Posted 2012-04-08

Nice and Easy to use.
oid-3523395 Posted 2011-08-26

Works perfectly on Linux Mint Debian as of 8.26.2011. Make sure you install open-vm-toolbox if you want copy/paste/dnd/auto-resize features.

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Developers, System Administrators

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GTK+

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C Virtual Machine Software

Registered

2007-08-29

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