Enabling shared folders between host and guest file systems on VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.The ability to customize guest operating systems immediately after powering on virtual machines.Execution of pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts while quiescing guest file systems.Quiescing guest file systems to allow hosts to capture file-system-consistent guest snapshots.Clock synchronization between guests and hosts or client desktops.Generation of heartbeat from guests to hosts so VMware's HA solution can determine guests' availability.Periodic collection of network, disk, and memory usage information from the guest.

The ability to run programs, commands and file system operation in guests to enhance guest automation.Execution of VMware provided or user configured scripts in guests during various power operations.The ability to perform virtual machine power operations gracefully.Open-vm-tools enables the following features in VMware products: It includes kernel modules for enhancing the performance of virtual machines running Linux or other VMware supported Unix like guest operating systems. Open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests. General What is the open-vm-tools project?

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