vmtools licensing

[sunnyca]

Hi,

Can someone help me to understand if vmtools is free ? I didn't find anywhere saying people can download, use and distribute vm installed with vmtools with no charge.

https://www.vmware.com/support/packages

Thank you.

Leo

[Anjani_Kumar]

Hello Sunny,

Welcome to the community.

VMtools can be directly installed or upgrade from the vm itself. Just Select the vm> right click > Guest> install/upgrade vm tools installation and it will automatically install iin your vmtools.

And vmtools are absolutely free.

All the best,

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Anjani Kumar

VMware vExpert 2014 .  Infrastructure Specialist.

Email ID : Anjani.kumar@vmwareminds.com

Website :   http://www.Vmwareminds.com

[sunnyca]

Hi Anjani,

Thank you for your reply. Is vmtools also free to download and use from http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html ?

If possible, can you show me a page/link saying vmtools is free ?

Thanks,

-Liang

[Anjani_Kumar · Accepted solution]

Yes. these are free from this location. you can find the latest vmtools from below location.

https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/index.html

As vmtools is the package included with the virtual machine and without this Machine cant work. So by default its there, and you can use it. No link i got saying its free .This is just like asking in the Macdonald  if " Ham is free in HamBurger " or Is the "Sauce is Free with the Samosa"  :smileysilly:

All the best,

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Anjani Kumar

VMware vExpert 2014 .  Infrastructure Specialist.

Email ID : Anjani.kumar@vmwareminds.com

Website :   http://www.Vmwareminds.com

[VRBitman]

As Anjani said, you probably won't find any explicit mention that they are free anywhere, but that's because they are a key component in all vSphere editions and included by default in the hypervisor at no extra cost.

They are not even meant to be downloaded from the Internet; on this page it clearly states that downloading the tools from packages.vmware.com is merely an alternative to installing them from the vSphere client.