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Setting Preferences for VMware Tools
Setting Preferences for VMware Tools in a Windows Guest Operating System
- Open VMware Tools. Double-click the VMware Tools icon in the system tray.
- The VMware Tools tab contains status information about the virtual machine.
Click the link button to visit the VMware home page.
- The Devices tab allows you to enable or disable removable devices. (You can
also set these options from the Devices menu of the VMware Workstation
application window.)
- The Shrink tab allows you to remove unused
disk blocks from your virtual disk, thereby reducing (shrinking) the amount of
storage space consumed by the virtual disk. It also reorganizes your virtual disk
so that its data blocks are contiguous.
- The Other tab shows the Miscellaneous Options:
- Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host
operating system.
Note: You can synchronize the time between the guest and host
operating systems only when you set the clock in the
guest operating system to a time earlier than the time set in the host.
- Show VMware Tools in the taskbar.
Setting Preferences for VMware Tools in a Linux Guest Operating System
- Open VMware Tools. Run the following command in a terminal:
vmware-toolbox.
- The Devices tab allows you to enable or disable removable devices. (You can
also set these options from the Devices menu of the VMware Workstation
application window.)
- The Shrink tab allows you to remove unused
disk blocks from your virtual disk, thereby reducing (shrinking) the amount of
storage space consumed by the virtual disk. It also reorganizes your virtual disk
so that its data blocks are contiguous.
- The Options tab shows these options:
- Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host
operating system. You can synchronize the time
between the virtual machine and the host
operating system.
Note: You can synchronize the time between the guest and host
operating systems only when you set the clock in the
guest operating system to a time earlier than the time set in the host.
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