What is the open-vm-tools project? open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests.

open-vm-tools.service: Failed to run 'start' task: Read-only file system" This is due to privtaeTmp=yes which is also set needing a writable /var/tmp 2 To ensure this works PrivateTmp would have to be ...

By offering a straight software play that supports multiple, enterprise-level workloads -- supporting file, object and now VM-level access -- on a single platform, Scality offers one of the most ...

If you cannot upgrade Guest Additions on a VirtualBox VM and instead see a VERR_NOT_FOUND error, take these steps to fix the issue.

So as a poor man's backup for our VM's, I have a scheduled task that robocopies some of our VM's to a separate share. These are VMware Server 1.06 VM's.I know Robocopy normally does delta copies ...

Broadcom alerts that attackers with limited access to a virtual machine can exploit a vulnerability affecting VMware Tools and trigger insecure file operations. The open-source implementation, open-vm ...

So, my data directories etc. inside the VM are backed up with a sensible 'only what’s changed' approach, and I can exclude the big VM file from the hourly backup with a clean conscience.