Redhat Enterprise 5 VMware Tools

[Cmeister]

Believe this is the correct forum...

Issue:

Have installed Redhat Enterprise 5 as well as vmware tools. Since this is a server X Windows has not been installed, hence cannot launch vmware-toolbox.

I want to ensure that guest is sychronizing with the host. How can I access vmware-toolbox w/o X Windows being installed?

/Cheers

[AWo · Accepted solution]

You can't.

But if you're talking about time synchronization, check the guests .vmx file. If there's a line ' tool.syncTime="TRUE" ' then time synchronization is enabled.

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[davidhaase]

Hi,

another alternative is to use

vmware-guestd --cmd "vmx.set_option synctime 0 1"

on the Red Hat shell if you do not like to reboot the VM.

Have a look at this document if you expect time issues: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf

Cheers,

David

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[Texiwill]

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