Determining the components of VMware Tools installed on a Windows virtual machine

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides steps to determine what components of VMware Tools are installed in a Windows virtual machine.

Resolution

To determine the installed VMware Tools components run this Powershell script:

$computer = "LocalHost"

$namespace = "root\CIMV2"

$componentPattern = "hcmon|vmci|vmdebug|vmhgfs|VMMEMCTL|vmmouse|vmrawdsk|vmxnet|vmx_svga"

(Get-WmiObject -class Win32_SystemDriver -computername $computer -namespace $namespace |

where-object { $_.Name -match $componentPattern } |

Format-Table -Auto Name,State,StartMode,DisplayName

)

You see output similar to:

Name State StartMode DisplayName

---- ----- --------- -----------

hcmon Running Auto VMware hcmon

vmci Running Boot VMware VMCI Bus Driver

vmhgfs Running System VMware Host Guest Client Redirector

VMMEMCTL Running Auto Memory Control Driver

vmmouse Running Manual VMware Pointing Device

This table lists the components for VMware Tools:

Installation option	MSI parameter Name	Required\Not Required
Toolbox	ToolsCore	Required
Memory Control Driver	MemCtl	Required
SCSI Driver	Buslogic	Required
Paravirtual SCSI	PVSCSI	Not Required
SVGA Driver	SVGA	Required
Mouse Driver	Mouse	Required
VMXNet NIC Driver	VMXNet	Required
VMXNET 3 NIC Driver	VMXNet3	Not Required
Filesystem Sync Driver	Sync	Required
Descheduled-Time-Accounting	vmdeshed	Not Required
Volume Shadow Copy Services	VSS	Not Required
Shared Folders	Hgfs	Not Required
Guest SDK	GuestSDK	Not Required
Wyse Multimedia Support	WYSE	Not Required
Audio Driver	Audio	Not Required
VMCI Driver	WMI Performance Logging	Not Required
WMI Performance Logging	Debug	Not Required
Vassert SDK	VAssert SDK	Not Required
VMCF SDK	VICFSDK	Not Required
Thin Print driver	ThinPrint	Not Required
vShield Drivers	VShield	Not Required

Note: MSI Parameter names are case sensitive.

Additional Information

Windows 仮想マシンにインストールされている VMware Tools のコンポーネントの確認