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The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. | |||
Almost all of the current Linux distributions carry this version of VMware Tools in their repositories. | |||
This is also the preferred version of VMware Tools over what might be bundled with VMware's products. | |||
You will also find this on other open source operating systems such as FreeBSD. | |||
The Open Virtual Machine Tools project aims to provide 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 hypervisors. | The Open Virtual Machine Tools project aims to provide 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 hypervisors. | ||
Project page: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools | Project page: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools | ||
=== Install on Debian / Ubuntu === | |||
On a server: | |||
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools | |||
On a desktop: | |||
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop | |||
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