Changes

The previous section described how the guest operating system running within a VMware Server virtual machine may be cleanly shutdown, restarted or suspended through the installation on VMware Tools on the guest.When a user instructs VI Web Access to change the power state of a virtual machine, VMware Server communicates with a VMware Tools process running on the guest operating system and instructs it to execute a script. The script which is executed depends on the nature of the power state change, together with script configuration settings made within the VMware Tools control panel (covered in detail later in this chapter). the ''VMware Tools Scripts'' section of the power configuration panel allows VMware Tools script execution to be disabled for each of the power state changes. To prevent a script running at a particular point, simply deselect the check box next to the corresponding description. === BIOS Setup === The BIOS setup section provides the ability to configure the selected virtual machine to automatically enter the BIOS setup screen next time it is powered on. This is a transient setting which is reset after the first power on. === Advanced === The ''Advanced'' settings allow the VMware Tools installation on the guest operating system to be automatically updated if a newer version is available, and to specify whether the guest operating system time should be synchronized with that of the host. == Creating Custom VMware Tools Scripts ==