VMware Tools uses a configuration file called
tools.conf
to configure different operations such as logging, upgrade, guest info, and so on. Admins can configure VMware Tools by editing this tools.conf
file.As Alan mentioned in his session, we plan to release an early Tech Preview of PowerCLI for both Mac OS X and Linux as a VMware Fling shortly after VMworld. It is also very important to note that Microsoft PowerShell for Mac OS X & Linux which PowerCLI uses is just at an Alpha release milestone.
Configuration File Location
While installing any macOS operating system on VMware you will be asked to choose an operating system. Further, you will not find any option of Mac because VMware Workstation Player doesn’t support it. Then Unlocker will be there for you to crack it and then you will be able to select Mac OS on VMware. Jun 08, 2020 How To Speed Up Mac OS X Mojave In Vmware/Virtualbox First: Beamoff. 2020 Update: Unfortunately, Beamoff does not seem to work on mac os mojave. But the new edition of VMware tools seem to solve this issue for most of the users. Beamoff is a free script developed by the Hackintosh community and experts that fix internal issues with the system.
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VMware does not support the running of OS X under VMware Player/Workstation! Also, running legally virtualizable versions of OS X in a Virtual Machine may only be done when done on Apple-branded hardware and when done while running under OS X and for that you need VMware Fusion not VMware Player/Workstation, otherwise you're violating the Apple SLA for that product. Oct 15, 2017 In this tutorial, I will show you how you can Install, Configure and run MAC OS X 10.11 El Captain, Yosemite 10.10, Maverick 10.9 on VMware Workstation 12 inside Windows PC. This is a Simple Guide on How to Install MAC OS X on VMWare Workstation running in a Windows host machine.
Guest OS | Path [1] |
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Windows XP, Windows Server 2000, and Windows Server 2003 | C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataVMwareVMware Toolstools.conf[2] |
Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 [3] | C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware Toolstools.conf[4] |
Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD | /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf |
FreeBSD with open-vm-tools 10.1.x or later | /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/tools.conf |
Mac OS X | /Library/Application Support/VMware Tools/tools.conf |
- If the configuration file does not exist, create it.
- The Application Data folder is hidden.
- You can edit this file as Administrator. For example: Right click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Notepad and select Run as administrator. Latest apps download for pc.
- The Program Data folder is hidden
Note: There is no need to restart the tools service when the file is edited. The tools service will check this file every 5 seconds (by default) for changes and apply them.
Example Configuration File
VMware Tools installs an example configuration file in the same directory as the location for
tools.conf
. This file lists the available options with possible values but commented out (with a leading '#' character), together with a description. If you want to change the options, uncomment them and copy this file to tools.conf
, or copy parts of it into the tools.conf
file.There were a several announcements at last weeks VMworld US Conference, but one of the most exciting piece of news in my opinion was from Alan Renouf, Product Manager for all things API/SDK/CLI at VMware. During Alan's What's New PowerCLI session, he announced that PowerCLI is finally coming to both Mac OS X as well as Linux! As you can imagine, the news was very well received from customers and partners. In fact, after I had tweeted the update here & here, I literally had folks pinging/IM'ing/DM'ing me non-stop about when they could get access ?
UPDATE (10/18/16) - PowerCLI Multi-Platform (MP) for Linux and Mac OS X has now been released as a VMware Fling. Please find the download here and provide any feedback in the comments section.
This exciting update was only possible with the help of our friends over at Microsoft who had recently open sourced both .NET Core & PowerShell. Once that news broke, Alan and the PowerCLI Engineering team have been working hard on porting over the existing PowerCLI code which uses the Windows .NET library over to the new .NET Core which is now open sourced. I have been very impressed at how fast the PowerCLI team have already made available many of the default cmdlets as well as the Get View cmdlet which exposes the entire functionality of the vSphere API.
Now, before you get too excited, this new version of PowerCLI is currently not available yet. As Alan mentioned in his session, we plan to release an early Tech Preview of PowerCLI for both Mac OS X and Linux as a VMware Fling shortly after VMworld. It is also very important to note that Microsoft PowerShell for Mac OS X & Linux which PowerCLI uses is just at an Alpha release milestone. There is still much work to do on both sides but I am really looking forward to enabling our customers with the choice of platform when it comes to consuming PowerCLI.
A few of us have been quite fortunate to have been involved in the early development of this new version of PowerCLI. In fact, we even built a simple Docker Container for PowerCLI which will allow you to easily access PowerCLI from any system that can run Docker. Here is a quick screenshot of spinning up a PowerCLI Docker Container which will also be part of the Fling release.
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Vmware Mac Os Install
Lastly, we want customers to be able to quickly and securely set up a persistent PowerCLI environment in which they can use to manage and configure their VMware-based products that support PowerCLI. With that, we have also built a PowerShell package for Photon OS which is VMware's minimal Linux container host distribution. Not only is it free to download and use, but it literally takes a few seconds to install (tdnf -y install powershell) and even less time to boot up and import the PowerCLI module. This was literally done the week before VMworld by the Photon team and huge kudos for their support! As you can see, not only do we want to provide choice for our customers but also simplifying how you might consume PowerCLI whether its natively on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Docker Container or running on top of VMware Photon OS. I hope you are excited as I am and stay tuned for more details on the Fling release!
If you have any feedback or what you are most excited regarding this news, please leave a comment and I will make sure it makes it way back to our Product Manager.