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Top 10 benefits of installing VMware Tools on a Virtual Machine (VM).

 Top 10 benefits of installing VMware Tools on a Virtual Machine (VM). 

(1) Improves mouse response and video performance. 
(2) Synchronize time with the ESXi host. 
(3) Enables Guest Introspection for NSX/agentless antivirus. 
(4) Installs the VMXNET3 driver for improved network. 
(5) Allows copy and paste between the VM and desktop.  
(6) Virtual Machine (VM) heartbeat.
(7) Shared folders between host and guest file systems.
(8) Provides the ability to take quiesced snapshots.
(9) Allows shutdown or restart options from the toolbar.
(10) Enables the option to take quiesced snapshots guest O/S.

VMware Tools is a set of service programs that increase performance of the guest operating system O/S Ex: Windows. Install VMware Tools and always keep it up to date for more features. It's recommended to upgrade VMware Tools as part of a vSphere upgrade, also upgrade to the latest virtual hardware version available for the virtual machine (VM). 

Dragging files between the host and guest operating systems is one of the important features but you must explicitly install VMware Tools in your virtual machine. It could fix some issues on VMs and get you better experience. Also it's helpful for network speed, if your mouse can't be moved freely or sound is not working properly.

VMware Tools is also valid for the following versions of GNU/Linux Virtual Machine (VM): 
Fedora 19 and higher
Debian 7.x and higher
openSUSE 11.x and higher
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and higher
CentOS 7.0 and higher
Oracle Linux 7.0 and higher
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 and higher

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