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Retrieve Status Information About the Virtual Machine, Procedure, What to do next, Prerequisites

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Using the VMware Tools Configuration Utility Procedure 1 Open a command prompt or terminal in the guest. 2 Change to the VMware Tools installation directory. Option Windows Linux and Solaris FreeBSD Action Change directories to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools. Change directories to /usr/sbin. Change directories to /usr/local/sbin. 3 Enter the command to disable the script. utility-name script script-name disable Option utility-name (On Windows guests) utility-name (On Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD guests) script-name Action Use VMwareToolboxCmd.exe. Use vmware-toolbox-cmd. Use power, resume, suspend, or shutdown. What to do next If you disabled the script for suspending a virtual machine, repeat this procedure to disable the script for resuming, or if you disabled the script for resuming, also disable the script for suspending. Retrieve Status Information About the Virtual Machine You can display information about host time and CPU speed. For virtual machines hosted on ESX, ESXi servers, you can display additional information about memory and CPU reservations and limits. Prerequisites n Determine what status information you want to display. See "Subcommands for the stat Command," on page 18. n If you plan to script the commands used in this procedure and need to know what the exit codes are, see "Exit Codes," on page 19. Procedure 1 Open a command prompt or terminal on the guest. 2 Change to the VMware Tools installation directory. Option Windows Linux and Solaris Action Change directories to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools. Change directories to /usr/sbin. VMware, Inc. 17

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Procedure
1
Open a command prompt or terminal in the guest.
2
Change to the VMware Tools installation directory.
Option
Action
Windows
Change directories to
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools
.
Linux and Solaris
Change directories to
/usr/sbin
.
FreeBSD
Change directories to
/usr/local/sbin
.
3
Enter the command to disable the script.
utility-name
script
script-name
disable
Option
Action
utility-name
(On Windows guests)
Use
VMwareToolboxCmd.exe
.
utility-name
(On Linux, Solaris, and
FreeBSD guests)
Use
vmware-toolbox-cmd
.
script-name
Use
power
,
resume
,
suspend
, or
shutdown
.
What to do next
If you disabled the script for suspending a virtual machine, repeat this procedure to disable the script for
resuming, or if you disabled the script for resuming, also disable the script for suspending.
Retrieve Status Information About the Virtual Machine
You can display information about host time and CPU speed. For virtual machines hosted on ESX, ESXi servers,
you can display additional information about memory and CPU reservations and limits.
Prerequisites
n
Determine what status information you want to display. See
“Subcommands for the stat Command,”
on
page 18.
n
If you plan to script the commands used in this procedure and need to know what the exit codes are, see
“Exit Codes,”
on page 19.
Procedure
1
Open a command prompt or terminal on the guest.
2
Change to the VMware Tools installation directory.
Option
Action
Windows
Change directories to
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools
.
Linux and Solaris
Change directories to
/usr/sbin
.
Using the VMware Tools Configuration Utility
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