Hi Chris, I think that yes, VmWare tools does give you a specialized ethernet driver, among other things. As for the original message here, I admit I'm not sure why you'd be seeing just that text, there's usually something else to accompany it. In fact, I think that text is visible in an alert, if I remember correctly, it's been a long while since I had to mess with VmWare Tools at all. I recommend you install them, nevertheless. Best, Zack. On Jun 4, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> VMWare tools, I think if I'm understanding correctly basicly gives you all > the drivers needed to be supported while inside your virtual machine. In > other words, without it, I don't think your airport would work, although I > could be wrong, I'm almost sure that your hardware bridging wouldn't work... > by bridging, I just mean, you can bridge your hardware from o s x to Windows > and vice versa. So, for example, your ethernet drivers aht come preloaded > with O S X would then work in Windows, your sound from o s x would carry over > to Windows etc. I think you have to have those tools installed in order for > that to be possible. Again, someone correct me if I wrong, as I'm still > pretty new to the whole vm world. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr." > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:40 PM > Subject: VMWAre Fusion tool > > > Hello all, > > I am running VMware Fusion with Windows 7 and have run into a problem where I > can not start windows. > > I used to be able to press an unlabled button, but now the button has > disappeared and was replaced with a text that says > > VMWare tool is not installed. Choose the virtual machine install vmware tools > menu. > > Also I may have accidentally removed windows 7 from my library. I don't know > what this means exactly. Just know I went changing things around in hopes to > fix something, and didn't think this would make things difficult especially > since there was no confirmation to remove windows 7 from my library. > > Could someone share what this VMWare tools means? > > Thanks, > > Antonio Guimaraes > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
