Take Control of Your Multi-Cloud Environment
73% of enterprises use two or more public clouds today. While multi-cloud accelerates digital transformation, it also introduces complexity and risk.
Simplicity Across Clouds Is Rare
91% of executives are looking to improve “consistency across [their] public cloud environments."
Applications Need to Be Modernized
68% of developers want to expand use of modern application frameworks, APIs and services.
Distributed Work Models Are Here to Stay
72% of enterprise employees are working from non-traditional environments.
Security Is a Top-Down Concern
Risk related to security, data and privacy issues remains the #1 multi-cloud challenge.
VMware Cross-Cloud™ services enable organizations to unlock the potential of multi-cloud with enterprise security and resiliency.
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Modernize Faster Across Clouds
Modernize apps faster with a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform to help you build and run all apps consistently across clouds.
Get on a Faster Path to Prod
Build and deploy quickly and securely on any public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.
Simplify Kubernetes Operations
Build and operate a secure, multi-cloud container infrastructure at scale.
Pair with App Development Experts
Unlock value by modernizing your existing apps and building innovative new products.
App Platform
Build, run, secure, and manage all of your apps across any cloud with application modernization solutions and guidance from VMware.
11 Security Practices to Manage Container Lifecycle
Get recommended practices for DevSecOps teams that desire a more modern app methodology.
Solutions & Products
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Power Every App on Any Cloud
Migrate to the cloud without recoding your apps. Modernize your infrastructure and operate consistently across the data center, the edge, and any cloud.
Scale Your Business & Innovate
Secure, run, and manage modern apps at scale, across clouds with consistent operations, higher speed, and reduced risks.
Accelerate Cloud Transformation
Modernize infrastructure, ops and apps to reduce cross-cloud complexity, lower costs, and improve security.
Empower a Hybrid Workforce
Enable anywhere work with broad effective security, a frictionless employee experience, and reduced cost and complexity.
Cloud & Edge Infrastructure
Run enterprise apps at scale with a consistent cloud infrastructure across public clouds, data centers and edge environments.
VMware Research: Multi-Cloud Strategies
Learn why enterprises find multi-cloud strategies critical for success.
Solutions & Products
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Multi-Cloud & Anywhere Workspace
Empower your employees to be productive from anywhere, with secure, frictionless access to enterprise apps from any device.
Deliver an Engaging Experience
Put employees first with device choice, flexibility, and seamless, consistent, high-quality experiences.
Secure Today’s Anywhere Workspace
Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.
Automate the Workspace
Manage to outcomes — not tasks — with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.
Anywhere Workspace
Enable any employee to work from anywhere, anytime with seamless employee experiences.
Remote Work Is No Longer Optional
Shift from supporting remote work to becoming an anywhere organization.
Solutions & Products
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Multi-Cloud Security & Networking
With connected security that delivers full visibility and frictionless operations, your apps and data are more secure with VMware, in any environment.
Secure & Connect Workloads
Operationalize consistent security and networking across apps, users, and entities with transparency built into our tools.
Protect APIs — the New Endpoints
Increase app velocity and centrally manage, secure, connect, and govern your clusters no matter where they reside.
Be Future-Ready
Get built-in threat intelligence spanning users, endpoints and networks to evolve your protection in a dynamic landscape.
Security & Networking
Deliver security and networking as a built-in distributed service across users, apps, devices, and workloads in any cloud.
Protect Your Multi-Cloud Environments
Discover the unique characteristics of malware and how to stay ahead of attacks.
Solutions & Products
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Trusted Advisors on Multi-Cloud Journey
Partners are trusted advisors to guide customers’ journeys to multi-cloud, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control.
Work with a VMware Partner
Partners deliver outcomes with their expertise and VMware technology, creating exceptional value for our mutual customers.
Become a Partner
Together with our partners, VMware is building the new multi-cloud ecosystem positioned to become essential to our customers.
Partners
With thousands of partners worldwide, we are positioned to help customers scale their business, drive innovation and transform their customer experience.
Working Together with Partners for Customer Success
See how we work with a global partner to help companies prepare for multi-cloud.
Solutions
VMware Tools Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs)
Welcome to the Web Site for VMware Tools Operating System Specific Packages
From this Web site, you can search, browse, and download Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) for select supported guest operating systems. OSPs are a packaging and distribution mechanism for VMware Tools that uses the native package formats and standards, such as rpm and deb, of the supported guest operating systems.
Offering an alternative to standard VMware Tools installation mechanisms, OSPs leverage your operating system's native update mechanisms to automatically download, install, and manage VMware Tools as appropriate for that operating system. With OSPs, you manage VMware Tools from within the guest in the same way you would other standard software.
VMware provides OSPs for older operating systems. For newer operating systems, the vendor or community provides open-vm-tools as part of the operating system, and VMware recommends that you use the open-vm-tools that come with these operating systems. VMware does not provide OSPs for operating system for which open-vm-tools are available. To learn more about open-vm-tools, see the
open-vm- tools Open Source project.
The following list identifies the guest operating systems for which VMware supports and provides OSPs. Generally, newer operating system releases are only supported on more recent platform releases. For detailed guest operating system support, see the
VMware Compatibility Guide.
Supported guest operating systems
- Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS) 4.0 through 6.x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 through 6.x
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 through 11
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 through 11
- Ubuntu Linux 8.04 through 12.04
To download an OSP for your guest operating system, visit the package repository at
http://packages.vmware.com/tools. Your usage of the VMware Tools OSPs found on this Web site is governed by the VMWARE MASTER END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT.
To learn how to download and install OSPs, see the VMware Tools Installation Guide for Operating System Specific Packages:
For more information about VMware Tools, see the product documentation for your version of ESX/ESXi at http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/
For guest operating system installation instructions, see the Guest Operating System Installation Guide at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/home.html