![]() Windows - C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\vmtoolsd.exe What if you wanted to to associate a specific piece of information from ESX(i) and be able to access that piece of information from the guestOS? You can do so with the vmtoolsd (VMware Tools Daemon) utility. ![]() Here is an example of retrieving ESX(i) CPU speed.Īs I mentioned before, you do not have access to the management network that your ESX(i) are on and that also means you do not have access to the vSphere APIs. This utility provide some information about ESX(i) and guestOS configuration including basic resource statistics. ![]() Windows - C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareToolboxCmd.exe The first utility is called VMware Toolbox command which can be found on both UNIX/Linux and Windows systems that have tools installed. Having said that, there are certain bits of information that you can extract about your ESX(i) host from within the guestOS using some of the utilities that is installed with VMware Tools. This of course, assumes you are following VMware's best practices in isolated and segregating off your management network from your virtual machine network. The simple answer is you can not, by default the guest operating system has no idea of the underlying hypervisor nor does it have the access to the management APIs. From time to time, I see this question come up asking how one might be able to extract a certain piece of information from either ESX(i) or the management APIs (vSphere API) from within a virtual machine.
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