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Show VMware Tools version with BGInfo

Duncan Epping · Apr 29, 2008 ·

Arne blogged about a cool feature of BGInfo yesterday, but his post is in dutch so it’s not on the Planet V12 RSS feed which is  a shame cause it’s definitely usefull info.

In short: BGInfo is a handy little SysInternals tool which sets a desktop wallpaper with pre-defined info like total memory, disk info, ip info etc. With BGInfo it’s also possible to define a specific field with for instance the version information of a file. Arne discovered that it’s possible to point towards the VMware tools executable and display the VMware tools version on your server desktop aka wallpaper.

I guess a picture says more than words:

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  1. Thomas Weyell says

    29 April, 2008 at 12:59

    Hi Duncan,

    can you please write me an eMail to Thomas.Weyell@sun.com? Ich have some questions about your blog.

    Thanks a lot,
    Thomas

  2. Chris Miller says

    14 May, 2008 at 15:28

    That was a pretty cool tip. I’m already using BgInfo on my VM’s to keep track of them and that tip will be useful to know what is installed where and at which version.

    thanks!

  3. JD says

    1 August, 2008 at 02:49

    The bginfo as mentioned above only shows the file versoin of the vmware tools file and not the VMWare Version as displayed in the vmware tools window which is 3.5.0 build 103908.

    Does anyone know how to display that in bginfo.

  4. Tim Oudin says

    27 November, 2010 at 19:49

    Very, very cool tip. Thanks for translating Arne’s post!

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the HCI BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007) and the author of multiple books including "vSAN Deep Dive" and the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series.

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