View Virtual Machine Status Information

You can view information about host time and CPU speed. For virtual machines hosted in a vSphere environment, you can view additional information about memory and CPU reservations and limits.

Prerequisites

• Determine the status information to display. See Display Status Information.
• If you plan to script commands and need to know what the exit codes are, see Common Exit Codes.

Procedure

1. Open a command prompt or terminal in the guest operating system.
2. Change to the VMware Tools installation directory.

   Operating System	Default Path
   Windows	C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools
   Linux and Solaris	/usr/sbin
   FreeBSD	/usr/local/sbin
   Mac OS X	/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools

3. Type the command to display the status information.

   utility-name stat subcommand
   

   Option	Action
   utility-name (On Windows)	Use VMwareToolboxCmd.exe.
   utility-name (On Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD)	Use vmware-toolbox-cmd.
   utility-name (On Mac OS X)	Use vmware-tools-cli.
   subcommand	Use hosttime or, speed, one of the subcommands available for virtual machines hosted in a vSphere environment.