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Currently, software systems must be appropriately developed to support an amount of variability for accommodating different requirements. To support such development, a diversity of tools has already ...

A previously undocumented Python backdoor targeting VMware ESXi servers has been spotted, enabling hackers to execute commands remotely on a compromised system. VMware ESXi is a virtualization ...

vmtools expects gethostname() (same as command line hostname) to return fqdn so that it can display VM DNS name at vCenter VM summary. However, by default gethostname() only returns a short name by ...

when you want to have the latest VMware tools for larger environments, you don't have other choices then wait for ESXi upgrade which brings the latest version of VMware tools or Configure VMware Tools ...

Security researcher MalwareHunter discovered today a new malware that he initially believed to be ransomware but ended up being just another annoying piece of junk that falls in the category of ...

Are we able to use the following test to determine if vmtools is installed on Linux images? mo.VirtualMachine.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus2 == "guestToolsNotInstalled" I did not have vmtools configured ...

Yesterday's post about VMware Tools for Nested ESXi hosts (a VIB – vSphere Installation Bundle) – which allows installing VMware tools in VM running nested ESXi is an exciting functionality for home ...