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VMware Command Line Tools

Overview

VMware Comand Line Tools consists of several small and simple programs instead of one large versatile program, only because I like it this way. Currently following programs are included:

name description
vmchk Checks if it is running inside VMware.
vmdev Connects and disconnects virtual devices, such as floppy, CD, sound, etc.
vmpref Enables and disables some preference settings, such as copy & paste and time syncronization, etc.
vmtime Syncronizes guest's system clock to host's system clock.
Note that this is just a regular "one shot" program and you have to run it periodically to keep guest and host in sync for a long period of time. TSR version is currently in progress.
vmcopy Copies text data from guest to host's clipboard.
Since DOS doesn't have any built-in clipboard, it reads text from standard input.
vmscr Like vmcopy, this program copies text data from guest to host but it reads text from screen instead of standard input.
In short, you can take a "screen shot" of DOS guest.
vmpaste Pastes text data from host's clipboard to guest.
Since DOS doesn't have any built-in clipboard, it writes text to standard output.
vmpop Well, it's a kind of joke...

And now in progress (though I have no idea when I can ever finish them...):

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PS. I would really appreciate it if you would let me know if you have found anything wrong with the English in this page. I'm still learning.