vmware-user - GUI tool
vmware-user
vmware-user is a relatively small Gtk application that should run for the
duration of an interactive X11 session. It has no dependencies on X11 service
daemons (e.g., messaging buses), and so it may be launched at any time during
or after session startup.
It's a hidden window application and handles tools features which we want active
all the time, but don't want to impose a visable window on the user.
Without a running vmware-user process, interactive X11 sessions will lack GUI
features such as drag-and-drop (DnD), file and text copy/paste, dynamic
display resizing, and Unity.
vmware-user depends on a mounted
vmblock(9) filesystem for proper host to
guest DnD operations.
Drag-and-drop operations depend on a setuid wrapper,
vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8).
A recent change to the Open VM Tools adjusted the nature of the relationship
between the VMware Tools service (
vmware-guestd(8)) and the VMware
user process (vmware-user). The two programs have been completely decoupled,
and as such
vmware-guestd(8) no longer attempts to automatically start
and stop vmware-user processes on users' behalf.
Modern display managers implementing the XDG autostart spec support launching
applications at session startup via placing a `vmware-user.desktop' file in a
well-known location (/etc/xdg/autostart).
vmware-user has no options.
/etc/vmware-tools/xautostart.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop
vmware-checkvm(1)
vmware-hgfsclient(1)
vmware-toolbox(1)
vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)
vmware-xferlogs(1)
libguestlib(3)
libvmtools(3)
vmware-guestd(8)
vmware-hgfsmounter(8)
vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)
vmblock(9)
vmci(9)
vmhgfs(9)
vmmemctl(9)
vmsock(9)
vmsync(9)
vmxnet(9)
vmxnet3(9)
More information about vmware-user and the Open VM Tools can be found at <
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.
Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <
http://www.vmware.com/>.
This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <
[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).