As part of working with OS X VMs in and, I’ve regularly installed the and have even found ways to incorporate their installation into my build process. However, getting the latest VMware Tools installer into my VM building workflow has usually involved at least one manual step or having a system management tool handle the installation for me. Ps2 emulator mac setup. I wanted something that was completely automated without needing to also install a system management client. My end goal was that I didn’t have to worry about doing anything; the latest VMware Tools for my OS X VM would just be installed into the VM as part of the build process.

After doing some research and testing, I have a solution that looks like it does just that. For more details, see below the jump. My colleague had adapted using to install ‘ and tools into VMs, using the script available from the link below: Update – 5-10-2016: Joe let me know that his script was a fork of ‘s, so credit to Tim for the original idea. My colleague had written a VMware Tools provider for AutoPkg, which was designed to download the latest copy of VMware Tools for OS X: I had already used Jesse’s AutoPkg provider to build, so I decided to see if I could leverage Joe’s technique with my existing recipe for AutoPkg. I also wanted to make sure to clean all AutoPkg-related parts from the system, as I didn’t want to leave traces behind on what could otherwise be a completely unconfigured OS X VM. After some work, I have a script which does the following: • Downloads AutoPkg from GitHub using git.

• Adds the AutoPkg recipe repo containing the VMwareTools.download and.pkg recipes • Redirects the AutoPkg cache to a temp location. • Downloads the current release version of VMware Tools for OS X using AutoPkg and extracts the installer package. • Installs the latest VMware Tools using the AutoPkg-generated installer package. Post-installation Once VMware Tools has been installed by the script, the OS X VM where VMware Tools has been installed must be restarted in order to enable VMware Tools’ functionality. Notes One thing I found in my testing is that would be needed for this process, so an essential pre-requisite for running this script is installing git.

This can be most easily accomplished by installing or the (CLT). Both will include git, so installing either should work. One gotcha I ran into during my testing is that Xcode / Xcode CLT usually require accepting Apple’s license before you’ll be able to use git, so make sure the license has been accepted prior to running this script.

A log file is available in “C: Users User Documents Virtual Machines OS X 10.11 vmware.log”. You can request support. To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose “Collect Support Data” from the Help menu.

I’ve posted the script to my GitHub repo at the following address: This script is also available as a payload-free installer package, stored as a.zip file in the payload_free_installer directory.

Ways to Speed up Mac OS X Performance. 1) Just Configure your Virtual machine in VMware. 2) Follow the tweaks inside Guest OS ( You Must Like: •. 10 Simple Steps to Speed up Virtual machine performance in VMware Workstation. 1) Check out Hardware Allocation: If your system’s memory size is too small then first-of-all if your computer support then increase the memory size and processor cores for better performance of your guest operating system.

Set the allocating memory for your guest user as needy and without considering host usage set processor cores to maximum. 2) Now Allocate your system’s Disk Space: It’s time to allocate disk space of your guest machine if your freely transfer data from host machine to guest. At the time of transferring the data to guest machine expanding storage option might slow down your systems disk performance. Instant need to increase virtual disk size.