Download Open Virtual Machine Tools 2007.09.04-56574

VMWare has some of its virtualization tools under the name Open Virtual Machine Tools released as open source software. Among other things, the tools should provide smooth file transfers between host and guest, and improve memory management and network performance. More information about this Tool can be found in this news item. The first publicly available version of Open Virtual Machine Tools has been given version numbering 2007.09.04-56574 and can be accessed by clicking this link downloaded as a tarball for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. The developers of VMWare let us know the following:

The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. As virtualization technology rapidly becomes mainstream, each virtualization solution provider implements their own set of tools and utilities to supplement the guest virtual machine. However, most of the implementations are proprietary and are tied to a specific virtualization platform.