Missing VMware Tools settings dialog

[WhiteKnight]

I have just installed Workstation 9 and created a Window 8/64 VM.

After installing VMware Tools I could only find an icon in the task tray allowing me to either disable itself or terminate.

How can I set up VMware Tools to synchronize the VM clock with the host clock in Windows 8?

What after I disabled the tray icon? How can I access VMware Tools then in Windows 8?

Your help is appreciated.

[WoodyZ]

Is there not a VMware Tools applet in Control Panel? (I'm not at a place I can look at the moment.)

[WhiteKnight]

No, it seems to be missing:

[continuum]

thats a new feature of WS 9 : the GUI-toolbox has been removed

I miss the easy to use shrink function most of all

[WhiteKnight]

I see...

Hmm.... So how can I set-up my guest to synchronize with the host clock then?

Any help on this is appreciated!

[WhiteKnight]

Just found it!

It has been moved from the guest OS to the VM settings dialog at the host:

[mfelker]

I've noticed that in most guest OS (both Windows and Linux) the crippled VMwareTools is installed automatically as you can see from the VM drop menu whrn there is only an option to   reinsatll VMware Tools - not install VMware Tools as in WS 8 and earlier.  This seems a function of the haste in which WS 9 was rolled out -.  To me this is a case of marketing overruling    engineering.   Perhaps other functions of the old Tools will be moved to the  host as  well - My guess is that will be in WS 9.1 (which hopefully   VMware marketing won't consider a upgrade to  pay for.)

[NealeC]

it's still possible from the command line via

vmwaretoolboxcmd

(usually in c:\program files\vmware tools)

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools>vmwaretoolboxcmd help

Usage: vmwaretoolboxcmd <command> [options] [subcommand]

Type 'vmwaretoolboxcmd help <command>' for help on a specific command.

Type 'vmwaretoolboxcmd -v' to see the VMware Tools version.

Use '-q' option to suppress stdout output.

Most commands take a subcommand.

Available commands:

   device

   disk

   script

   stat

   timesync

   upgrade (not available on all operating systems)

[continuum]

the shrink function has really changed a lot - in earlier version the part of the job that created the wiperfile was done while the VM could still be used if I remember right.

The new version locks the VM immediatly - not just for the second part of the job that has to be done by the host - so watch out - you may need lots of time to shrink a VM.

[VM0Sean]

I don't know if they reverted it, and although I am very unimpressed with the loss of functionality the command line seems to work exactly the same.

There's a text bar that wipes the drive, then after the wipe it locks the VM while shrinking only.

However it doesn't shrink as well as it used to.  I took a VM which was previously shrunk to 1.8GB.  Copied in some files, installed an application, and deleted the files. Total space inside the VM difference is 50MB.  Even after defrag and cleanup and shrinking it's now 2.2GB.

Sigh.