The vmware-tools are now. There’s a package for lenny/sid, but not etch.
There are out there who have it. This package appears to make a ‘guestinfo.ip’ variable, which is a method for passing data between the host and guest without networking. There does not appear to be any variables for the hostname of the guest or the host by default, which is REALLY, REALLY dumb. You can make one though. Guest$ /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd –cmd ‘info-get guestinfo.ip’ This is really awesomely funny: guest$ /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd –cmd ‘info-set guestinfo.hostname’ Two and exactly two arguments expected guest$ /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd –cmd info-set guestinfo.hostname Too many mandatory argument(s) on the command line.
The maximum is 1. 04:00pm btm HA HA HA HA HA 04:02pm jetli btm: welcome to my world 04:02pm jetli btm: here’s a hint. Typing harder won’t help 04:03pm jetli btm: neither will profanity, or throwing things This does work: guest$ /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd –cmd ‘info-set guestinfo.hostname foo’ Then on the server you can run ‘vmware-cmd -l’ to list your config files. Then run: host$ vmware-cmd ‘/path/to/config.vmx’ getguestinfo hostname And you get: getguestinfo(hostname) = foo Now go do something useful with it (I’m going to use it with and.) This entry was posted in on. Post navigation.
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GuestInfo: Information about VMware Tools and about the virtual machine from the perspective of VMware Tools. Information about the guest operating system is available in VirtualCenter. Guest operating system information reflects the last known state of the virtual machine. For powered on machines, this is current information. Vim.vm.GuestInfo Information about the guest operating system.Most of this information is collected by VMware Tools. In general, be sure you have VMware Tools installed and that the virtual machine is running when you access this information.