From the course: Virtualization: Configuring VMs Across Platforms with VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and KVM
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VMware tools
- While working with virtual machines, there's VMware Tools. So what is VMware Tools? Well, VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that can be added to a virtual machine, and you need to install it inside the virtual machines to get a better experience. And by doing so, additional features become available, like better driver support and host guest filesystem to enable easy file sharing between hosts and guests. And also you can use it to synchronize the power state. So if you bring down the host, VMware Tools makes sure that the power state of your virtual machine is adapted as well. On Linux virtual machines, you don't have to use VMware Tools because the Open VM tools package is a part of the Linux operating system. It's open source, it comes at the installation of your Linux operating system, which will detect that it is installed in a virtual machine and it provides all the features provided by the VMware Tools. That is why in Linux you will see that the VMware Tools…
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