How Does Lm Tools Work - VMware VLM3-ENG-CP - Lab Manager - PC User Manual

VMware® Lab Manager User's Guide
How does LM Tools work?
The configuration file for a virtual machine, the .vmx file, contains a machine.id line.
If you install VMware Tools on the template, the guest operating system can read this
line.
The Lab Manager Server system sets the values for this line while deploying virtual
machines. See this example of the machine.id line:
machine.id =
"ip=10.6.11.101&netmask=255.255.0.0&gateway=10.6.0.1&dns1=10.5.1.20&dns
2=10.5.1.21&computerName=arp&UseSysPrep=No&KEYNUM=612942190"
To access the machine.id line
1 From the Managed Server system, open the .vmx file.
2 Search for machine.id from inside the guest operating system:
From the command prompt on a Linux guest OS, type:
From a Windows guest OS, navigate to the directory where VMware Tools is
installed (usually C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools) and type:
The installation of LM Tools on a template configures a script to run every time the
system starts up. This script reads the machine.id information and determines what
action to take.
The Lab Manager Server system does not set any actions in the machine.id line while
deploying virtual machine templates. As a result, the LM Tools script does not perform
any customization for the template when it starts up.
The Lab Manager Server system does set customization actions in the machine.id line
while deploying Workspace virtual machines. When these virtual machines first start
up, the LM Tools script performs the relevant actions.
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# vmware-guestd --cmd machine.id.get
>VMwareService.exe -cmd machine.id.get
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