---
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://new.carta.tech/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)](/vmware-user/1.md), must be run in an X11 session, and isn't needed otherwise. Also like [*vmware-user*(1)](/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)](/vmware-checkvm/1.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsclient*(1)](/vmware-hgfsclient/1.md)\
 [*vmware-user*(1)](/vmware-user/1.md)\
 [*vmware-xferlogs*(1)](/vmware-xferlogs/1.md)\
 [*libguestlib*(3)](/libguestlib/3.md)\
 [*libvmtools*(3)](/libvmtools/3.md)\
 [*vmware-guestd*(8)](/vmware-guestd/8.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsmounter*(8)](/vmware-hgfsmounter/8.md)\
 [*vmware-toolbox-cmd*(1)](/vmware-toolbox-cmd/1.md)\
 [*vmware-user-suid-wrapper*(8)](/vmware-user-suid-wrapper/8.md)\
 [*vmblock*(9)](/vmblock/9.md)\
 [*vmci*(9)](/vmci/9.md)\
 [*vmhgfs*(9)](/vmhgfs/9.md)\
 [*vmmemctl*(9)](/vmmemctl/9.md)\
 [*vmsock*(9)](/vmsock/9.md)\
 [*vmsync*(9)](/vmsync/9.md)\
 [*vmxnet*(9)](/vmxnet/9.md)\
 [*vmxnet3*(9)](/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).