On top of those, we also have some other general improvements for you. So that’s the platform-specific aspects covered. If you need to upgrade before your vendor pushes open-vm-tools to their repo, you can download the code from Github and compile for your platform. Once the OS vendors have completed their build and test of the code, the latest version of open-vm-tools will be available in your repo. If you’re running a modern distro, you should be using open-vm-tools rather than the OSP or TAR tools. To distinguish the fact that there are no new features for these VMware Tools, we are releasing VMware Tools 10.3.20, which is only available as TAR and OSP. However, we continue to backport security fixes for legacy Linux distros. 10.3.5 was the final release of these tools from a feature perspective. It’s no secret that the TAR and OSP (Operating System Specific Packages) for Linux are no longer under active development.
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In readiness for MacOSX 10.15 (Catalina), this release of VMware Tools for Mac OSX is notarized. As of VMware Tools 11.0 for Mac OSX, we have deprecated the ballon driver for memory management.
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There are a couple of changes for Mac OS X users too. This release isn’t just about Windows, either. If you have strict change control or security requirements, this one is for you! VMware Tools 11.0 for Mac OSX You can also prevent a vSphere Admin from adding or removing VMware Tools components. First, you can now configure VMware Tools to prevent automatic upgrades. There are 2 new features from the perspective of the Guest Admin.
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This splitting of the drivers means we can replace the user-mode components without requiring a reboot, and that has to be a good thing! Glxgi.sys continues to provide guest integrity functionality, and the new giappdef.sys provides process and network attestation. We have split the AppDefense driver (glxgi.sys) into glxgi.sys and giappdef.sys. VMware Tools 11.0 now uses Visual Studio 2017 as the kernel space compiler.įrom a security perspective, we have split out the monolithic AppDefense driver into 2 separate drivers.
We’re working hard to give you the option of further drivers, so expect to see more of this kind of announcements as time goes on. At the time we made the vmxnet3 driver through this channel. In April this year, we launched VMware Tools 10.3.10. My colleague Eric Gray blogged about the initial launch of this back in August 2018 when we made the pvscsi driver available through Windows Update. We continue our efforts to minimize additional reboot requirements by making the VMCI driver available through the Windows Update channel for Windows Server 2016 and above.
What’s New for Windows?Ī major version bump usually signals significant new features, and this release is no exception. On that note, I am delighted to announce the general availability of VMware Tools 11.0. It provides drivers for virtual and paravirtual devices, security components, and capabilities such as guest file system quiesced snapshots. VMware Tools is a critical component in your virtual infrastructure.
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