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Installing and Configuring Linux Guest Operating Systems
Appendix B: Command-Line Options for VMware Tools Upgrades
WhenyouinstallorupgradeVMwareTools,youcanenterseveralcommand‐lineoptions,listedinTable9.
Right‐clickavirtualmachineandselectInstall/UpgradeVMwareTools.Thenenterthecommand‐line
optionsintheAdvancedfield.SeeBasicSystemAdministrationformoredetails.Foralink,see“Resources”
on
page 19.
SUSELinuxEnterpriseServer8 2.0–3.5U2
SUSELinux9.3 2.5.2–2.5.5
SUSELinux9.2 2.5.1–2.5.5
SUSELinux9.1 2.5–2.5.5
SUSELinux9.0 2.1–2.5.5
SUSELinux8.2 2.0–2.5.5
UbuntuLinux8.04 3.5U2
UbuntuLinux7.10 3.5U1–U2
UbuntuLinux7.04 3.0.2–3.5U2
FreeBSD4.11 2.5.4–2.5.5
FreeBSD4.10 2.5–2.5.5
FreeBSD4.9 2.5
Table 8. Supported Linux and FreeBSD Operating Systems
Guest Operating System ESX Server
Table 9.
Option Description
-u user Specifiesauserwithsufficientprivilegesonthetargetvirtualmachine,including
VirtualMachine.Config.*,VirtualMachine.Interact.*,andVirtualMachine.Provisioning.*
-p password Specifiesapasswordonthecommandline.Ifthisisomitted,thetoolimmediatelypromptsfor
apassword.
-n vmname Thenameofthevirtualmachinetoupgrade.Thisnamecorrespondstothedisplaynameof
a
virtualmachine.Specifymultiplevirtualmachinesusingmultiple-nparameters.The-noption
isignoredif-hisspecified.
-h host Attemptstoupgradeallthevirtualmachinesonaparticularhost.Failsifthespecifiedhostis
notESXversion3.0orgreater.
-m maxpowerons Onaparticularhost,powerononly
thisnumberofvirtualmachinesatatime.
-o port SpecifiestheVirtualCenterServerport,ifoneotherthanthedefa ultport902hasbeen
configured.
-t maxpowerontime Afterthetoolsupgradeisscheduledonavirtualmachine,thevirtualmachineispoweredon
andallowedtorunthroughthetoolsinstallationprocess.Inmost
cases,theguestpowersoffthe
machinewhentheprocesscompletes.Thisparameterallowsausertosetthemaximumamount
oftimeforavirtualmachinetobepoweredonincasetheguestisunabletoshutdownthe
machineitself.
-s Skipsthetoolsanddoesonlythe
virtualhardwareupgrade.
-q Worksquietly.Doesnotproducestatusorcompletionmessagesonshutdown.
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