A set of features available after installing VMware Tools is not the same for different operating systems. For example, some features enabled for Windows guests are not available for Linux guests. The Unity mode is not available for Linux guests in the latest versions of VMware desktop hypervisors. You also need to install VMware Tools after P2V migration if you convert a physical server to a virtual machine.
In some Linux distributions , you may need to manually install the packages required for VMware Tools installation such as kernel headers and tools that are needed to compile VMware Tools during installation.
In Debian-based distributions, you can install the necessary packages with the command:. The legacy method can be useful when you need to install VMware Tools on older versions of Linux. Click Mount when ready. Note: if you have two guest operating systems installed on a VM, you should install VMware Tools on both operating systems. In Ubuntu 18, the virtual DVD disc is mounted automatically and you can see its shortcut on the Desktop.
Right click the shortcut and hit Open in Terminal. Note: If the DVD disc is not mounted automatically on your Linux distribution, you can mount the disc manually. Extract files from the VMware Tools installation archive the number of your version may be different :. Make sure that the ifconfig command is available in the console. Otherwise, install net-tools that include the ifconfig tool manually before installing VMware Tools on your Ubuntu guest.
After opening a shortcut in Terminal, you can see a directory of the virtual DVD disc image that is the current directory in the console now. You can list the content of this directory and see the archive with the VMware Tools installer for Linux.
Go to the vmware-tools-distrib directory that contains the executable installer file. The installer is written on Perl. After running the VMware Tools installer, you should answer the questions in the console. Press Enter to use the default value that is shown in brackets. You can use the default value for the majority of options.
Enter Y yes to enable those features, as the default answer is [no]. If VMware Tools have been installed successfully, you can see a message like the message displayed on the screenshot.
You may need to restart your guest Linux to apply all system changes after installing VMware Tools. VMware recommends you to install VMware Tools for Linux from online software repositories by using the Linux package manager. The clear installation of Ubuntu Note: The installation principle for other Linux distributions is the same.
If you use Linux without a graphical user interface GUI that has only the command line interface, then install VMware Tools with the command:.
Note: There are also two alternative packages of Open VM Tools that can be installed from online software repositories.
VMware Tools can be installed automatically if you are installing Ubuntu Even if you select Minimal installation in the Ubuntu installation wizard Updates and other software , VMware Tools open-vm-tools-desktop will be downloaded and installed automatically from online software repositories Internet connection is required.
Thus, you can save time spent on installing VMware Tools and system updates. Ubuntu 19 becomes more user-friendly for VMware virtual environment. Make sure that these two options are enabled:. See how to do this below. This is for security reasons. To do this, you should edit the virtual machine configuration.
Go to the directory on a datastore where the files of your Linux virtual machine are stored. In this example, we go to the directory:. In our case, we have to edit the Ubuntu-VMT.
You can make a backup of the VM configuration file before editing. Add the following two strings in the end of the file. Similarly to Linux, the latest versions of VMware Tools are distributed only as Open VM Tools, which is an open source implementation of VMware Tools intended to improve the installation process and make it possible to update VMware Tools when upgrading an operating system.
The system notifies that some additional packages must be installed. Proceed with this action - type Y and press Enter to continue. Another operating system supported by VMware as a guest operating system is Oracle Solaris also known as SunOS and much like the operating systems considered above, it is highly recommended to install VMware Tools on Solaris.
If the image cannot be mounted automatically, download and mount the installation ISO image for Solaris to the VM manually. Run the vmware-install.
Perl must be installed in your operating system to run the installer successfully. Answer the questions provided by the VMware Tools installer. You can use default settings in most cases.
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Proxysql Community. Rabbitmq Community. Routeros Community. Skydive Community. Sops Community. Windows Community. Vmware » community. Please use a list instead. Parameters for OS customization when cloning from the template or the virtual machine, or apply to the existing virtual machine directly. Not all operating systems are supported for customization with respective vCenter version, please check VMware documentation for respective OS customization. Allowed characters are alphanumeric uppercase and lowercase and minus, rest of the characters are dropped as per RFC This parameter can be used to override datastore or datastore cluster setting of the virtual machine when deployed from the template.
Added in Ansible 2. If persistent specified, changes are immediately and permanently written to the virtual disk. This is default. If eagerzeroedthick specified, disk type is set to eagerzeroedthick disk. Added Ansible 2. If not specified, disk type is inherited from the source VM or template when cloned and thick disk, no eagerzero otherwise. When creating new VM, the first configured disk in the disk list will be "Hard Disk 1".
This is specifically the case for removing a powered on the virtual machine when state is set to absent. This field is required when creating a virtual machine, not required when creating from the template.
Valid values are buslogic , lsilogic , lsilogicsas and paravirtual. If set to latest , the specified virtual machine will be upgraded to the most current hardware version supported on the host. Incorrect hardware version may lead to failure in deployment. If hardware version is already equal to the given. Deploy on unsupported ESXi, hardware version or firmware may lead to failure or deployed VM with unexpected configurations.
Note, this may need to be done in a dedicated task invocation that is not making any other changes. For example, user cannot change the state from powered-on to powered-off AND save as template in the same task. See community. If multiple virtual machines with same name exists, then folder is required parameter to identify uniqueness of the virtual machine.
This parameter is required, if state is set to poweredon , powered-on , poweredoff , powered-off , present , restarted , suspended and virtual machine does not exists. Valid value can be one of e , ee , pcnet32 , vmxnet2 , vmxnet3 , sriov. Make sure that the host or the cluster on which the virtual machine resides has available PMem resources.
When add a new device, please do not set label. If state is set to present and virtual machine exists, ensure the virtual machine configurations conforms to task arguments. If state is set to absent and virtual machine exists, then the specified virtual machine is removed with it's associated components. If state is set to one of the following poweredon , powered-on , poweredoff , powered-off , present , restarted , suspended and virtual machine does not exists, virtual machine is deployed with the given parameters.
If state is set to poweredon or powered-on and virtual machine exists with powerstate other than powered on, then the specified virtual machine is powered on. If state is set to poweredoff or powered-off and virtual machine exists with powerstate other than powered off, then the specified virtual machine is powered off. If state is set to restarted and virtual machine exists, then the virtual machine is restarted. If state is set to suspended and virtual machine exists, then the virtual machine is set to suspended mode.
If state is set to shutdownguest or shutdown-guest and virtual machine exists, then the virtual machine is shutdown. If state is set to rebootguest or reboot-guest and virtual machine exists, then the virtual machine is rebooted.
If the state is set to shutdownguest , by default the module will return immediately after sending the shutdown signal. If this argument is set to a positive integer, the module will instead wait for the virtual machine to reach the poweredoff state. Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid.
Set to false when certificates are not trusted. Be careful when setting this value since the time guest customization took may differ among guest OSes. Tested on vSphere 5. Define a list of advanced settings to be added to the VMX config. An advanced settings object takes two fields key and value. Incorrect key and values will be ignored. A note or annotation to include in the virtual machine. Added in version 2. For ide controller, valid value is 0 or 1.
For sata controller, valid value is 0 to 3. Valid options are ide and sata. Default value is ide. Required if type is set iso. Valid value is present or absent. Default is present. The default value is client. The cluster name where the virtual machine will run. This parameter is case sensitive. Choices: thin thick eagerzeroedthick. Specify convert disk type while cloning template or virtual machine.
Choices: no yes. Auto logon after virtual machine customization. Specific to Windows customization. Number of autologon after reboot. Ignored if autologon is unset or set to False. If unset, 1 will be used. List of DNS servers to configure. Common for Linux and Windows customization. List of domain suffixes, also known as DNS search path. Default domain parameter. DNS domain name to use. User used to join in AD domain.
Required if joindomain specified. Password used to join in AD domain. If set to True , do OS customization on the specified virtual machine directly. Server owner name. If unset, "Administrator" will be used as a fall-back. Computer hostname. Default is shortened name parameter. Specifies whether the hardware clock is in UTC or local time. Specific to Linux customization. AD domain to join. Not compatible with joinworkgroup. Workgroup to join.
Not compatible with joindomain. Organisation name. If unset, "ACME" will be used as a fall-back. Local administrator password. If not defined, the password will be set to blank that is, no password.
Product ID. List of commands to run at first user logon. Unique name identifying the requested customization specification. If set, then overrides customization parameter values.
Define a list of custom values to set on virtual machine. A custom value object takes two fields key and value. Default: "ha-datacenter". Destination datacenter for the deploy operation.
Specify datastore or datastore cluster to provision virtual machine. This parameter takes precedence over disk.
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