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Guest SDK (provides information about the VM)Īgain, this set changes over time.

GuestInfo (provides statistics about guest environment).

Automatic guest screen resolution resizing.

Drag and Drop, Text and File Copy/Paste.

Drivers for devices and filesystems access.

VMware willĮncourage 3rd parties to release their contributions under the GPL. CertainĮxperimental drivers are planned for future release. That have been developed solely by VMware are being released. The open-vm-tools FAQ says the following about what code it contains vs VMWare Tools:Īll of the non-experimental kernel modules and user level applications That's still true, but I found a list from the open-vm-tools website, so I though I would include that here.

UPDATE: Earlier I was reluctant to be specific about what code was in open-vm-tools vs VMware Tools because the set changes. Also, if your Linux distribution has a VMware Tools package in its repositories, it is based on Open VM Tools and not VMware Tools. In general, you can expect that Open VM Tools will provide the same basic features that VMware Tools does, but there may be a few extra things that VMware Tools includes. The Open VM Tools packages is just the open source subset of the VMware Tools package.

The VMware Tools package that ships with VMware products contains both open source and closed source components.