---
name: "vmware-toolbox"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "open-vm-toolbox"
version: "1:8.4.2-261024-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://carta.tech/man/vmware-toolbox"
---

# vmware-toolbox(1)

GUI toolbox

## NAME

vmware-toolbox - GUI toolbox

## SYNOPSIS

**vmware-toolbox**

## DESCRIPTION

This is a per-user process that, like [*vmware-user*(1)](/man/vmware-user/1.md), must be run in an X11 session, and isn't needed otherwise. Also like [*vmware-user*(1)](/man/vmware-user/1.md), it does not support multiple concurrent users, and depends on certain Gtk shared objects at runtime.

## OPTIONS

vmware-toolbox has no options.

## SEE ALSO

[*vmware-checkvm*(1)](/man/vmware-checkvm/1.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsclient*(1)](/man/vmware-hgfsclient/1.md)\
 [*vmware-user*(1)](/man/vmware-user/1.md)\
 [*vmware-xferlogs*(1)](/man/vmware-xferlogs/1.md)\
 [*libguestlib*(3)](/man/libguestlib/3.md)\
 [*libvmtools*(3)](/man/libvmtools/3.md)\
 [*vmware-guestd*(8)](/man/vmware-guestd/8.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsmounter*(8)](/man/vmware-hgfsmounter/8.md)\
 [*vmware-toolbox-cmd*(1)](/man/vmware-toolbox-cmd/1.md)\
 [*vmware-user-suid-wrapper*(8)](/man/vmware-user-suid-wrapper/8.md)\
 [*vmblock*(9)](/man/vmblock/9.md)\
 [*vmci*(9)](/man/vmci/9.md)\
 [*vmhgfs*(9)](/man/vmhgfs/9.md)\
 [*vmmemctl*(9)](/man/vmmemctl/9.md)\
 [*vmsock*(9)](/man/vmsock/9.md)\
 [*vmsync*(9)](/man/vmsync/9.md)\
 [*vmxnet*(9)](/man/vmxnet/9.md)\
 [*vmxnet3*(9)](/man/vmxnet3/9.md)

## HOMEPAGE

More information about vmware-toolbox and the Open VM Tools can be found at \<*http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/*\>.

## AUTHOR

Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. \<*http://www.vmware.com/*\>.

This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann \<*daniel@debian.org*\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).