Changelog:
What's New
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release below:
vmware-namespace-cmd: Added vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility that exposes set/get commands for the namespace database in the VMX.
gtk3 support: open-vm-tools has been updated to use gtk3 libraries.
Common Agent Framework (CAF): CAF provides the basic services necessary to simplify secure and efficient management of agents inside virtual machines.
xmlsec1: Changed guest authentication to xmlsec1.
FreeBSD: Changes to support open-vm-tools on FreeBSD.
Automatic Linux Kernel Modules: Automatic rebuilding of kernel modules is enabled by default.
New sub-command: Added a new sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand.
udev-rules: Added udev rules for configuring SCSI timeout in the guest.
Ubuntu 16.10: Fixes for running on Ubuntu 16.10.
Quiesced Snapshot: Fix for quiesced snapshot failure leaving guest file system quiesced.
Internationalization
open-vm-tools 10.1.0 supports the following languages:
English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Compatibility
open-vm-tools 10.1.0 is compatible with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation 12.5 and VMware Fusion 8.5.
The only following features are tested on NetBSD/amd64 7.99.39 without vmt(4)
on VMware Workstation 12 Player 12.0.5 for Windows or ESXi 6.0u2.
* Hostname and IP address report
* Shutdown and reboot operations from host
* Copy and paste of text string between host and guest
* Guest clock sync
The other features are not tested. For example,
* Drag and drop between host and guest
* VM HA, heartbeat
* HGFS, shared folder
Changelog:
What's New
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release below:
Common versioning: Infrastructure changes to enable reporting of the true version of open-vm-tools. This feature is dependent on host support.
Quiesced snapshots enhancements for Linux guests running IO workload: Robustness related enhancements in quiesced snapshot operation. The vmtoolsd service supports caching of log messages when guest IO has been quiesced. Enhancements in the vmbackup plugin use a separate thread to quiesce the guest OS to avoid timeout issues due to heavy I/O in the guest.
Shared Folders: For Linux distributions with kernel version 4.0.0 and higher, there is a new FUSE based Shared Folders client which is used as a replacement for the kernel mode client.
ESXi Serviceability: Default vmtoolsd logging is directed to a file instead of syslog. vmware-toolbox-cmd is enhanced for setting vmtoolsd logging levels.
GuestInfo Enhancements: Plugin enhancements to report more than 64 IP addresses from the guest. These enhancements will be available only after upgrading the host because the guest IP addresses limit also exists on the host side.
Internationalization
open-vm-tools 10.0.0 supports the following languages:
English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Compatibility
open-vm-tools 10.0.0 is compatible with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation 12.0 and VMware Fusion 8.0.
