(Title Party) heard that Vmtools was in trouble?

about vsphere Vmtools There are two messages, a good news, a bad news, which do you want to hear first?

The bad news is, after vmtools, maybe no one's using it.

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The good news is that Open-vm-tools will replace vmtools and become the standard service and module for Linux.

See this news, the V user is not a sigh of relief and the joy of the Big Ben?

VMware will continue to provide vmtools tools and related support in the commercial version, but

Users are advised to turn to Open-vm-tools,

Users are advised to turn to Open-vm-tools,

Users are advised to turn to Open-vm-tools

The currently supported guest OS for Open-vm-tools are:

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  • Fedora later releases

  • Debian 7.x and later releases

  • OpenSUSE 11.x and later releases

  • Recent Ubuntu releases (12.04 LTS, 13.10 and later)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and later releases

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise and later releases

  • CentOS 7 and later releases

  • Oracle Linux 7 and later

To achieve this integration, VMware opens up the following modules for Vmtools:

• Multiple devices and file system drivers under Linux,solaris,freebsd

• Memory Balloons

• Power Management Plug-in

• The VIX plugin, a virtual architecture interface, can run programs, commands, and file system operations in the guest OS

• Guestos Cycle Statistics data collection plug-in

• Time Synchronization Plugin

• Dndcp,drag and Drop plugin, text, file copy paste

• Resolution Settings Plugin

• Guest OS Authentication Service

• Command Toolbox, Disk erase reduction, power scripts, time synchronization, etc.

• Guest OS SDK library, providing virtual machine information to guest OS

• Client folder sharing support

• Multi-monitor support

• GTK Graphical Interface Toolbox

open-vm-tools features include the following:

• Power Management

• Configuration scripts

• Automate application, command line, and file system operations

• Operation authorization

• Cycle collects guest OS network, disk, memory usage information

• Provides guest-to-host heartbeat for HA to determine guest availability

• Keeping the clock synchronized between guest and host/client

• File system silence for host capture file consistent guest snapshot

• When the file system is silent, the pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts are executed.

• Perform a pre-freeze

• Quickly customize the guest OS

• Workstation and fution, shared folders between guest OS and host

• Copy and paste text, images, and files between the host/desktop client and the Guestos

users can choose to use Vmtools or Open-vm-tools,vmware not provide open-vm-tools in the Linux hairstyle version osps*
*operating System specific Packages (OSPS): Provides the mechanisms required for operating system upgrades, such as Apt,yum, to download, install, and manage components.

GitHub Web site for the Open-vm-tools project:

Https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

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(Title Party) heard that Vmtools was in trouble?