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VMware Tools

You install unmodified operating systems directly from floppies and/or CD-ROMs into virtual machines. This installation process is the first and only necessary step in building a virtual machine.

However, VMware highly recommends that you install VMware Tools within each virtual machine as soon as you finish installing the guest operating system.

VMware Tools consists of two components:

  • A graphics driver that is optimized for the virtual machine's virtual graphics card. For Linux guest operating systems, this consists of our own version of the XFree86 X server. The graphics driver is installed by the wizard. Once installed, it will be used for subsequent reboots.

  • A small background application that allows you to change configuration settings within the virtual machine. The VMware product controls the cursor settings and the connection state of removable devices (such as floppy and CD-ROM drives).

    The cursor settings allow you to move the mouse cursor smoothly between the virtual machine and the host graphical user interface. The cursor settings also allow you to copy/paste text buffers between virtual machines and the host and from one virtual machine to another. Note that these enhancements are available only when the application is running.

An installation wizard automatically installs all the VMware Tools software that needs to run within a virtual machine.

The VMware Tools suite is specific to each guest operating system. It is currently available only for specific guest operating systems.

For Linux and Windows guest operating systems, the VMware Tools package is included in the main product software.

You may download VMware Tools for FreeBSD here.

Installing VMware Tools

Please follow this link to install VMware Tools.

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