Top 10 important benefits of installing VMware Tools on a Virtual Machine (VM). (1) Improves mouse response and video performance.
(2) Synchronise time with the ESXi host.
(3) Enables Guest Introspection for NSX/agentless antivirus.
(4) Installs the VMXNET3 driver for improved network performance.
(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 of the guest O/S.
The VM guest Operating System O/S "Windows" can run without VMware Tools, but many features will be missing, it is always good that you run the latest version of VMware Tools.
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