New Fling: VMware Tools for Nested ESXi by VMware Labs
VMware Labs released a new Fling called VMware Tools for Nested ESXi. The download is available as vib and is about 1.8MB. This VIB package provides a VMware Tools service (vmtoolsd) for running inside a nested ESXi virtual machine. The following capabilities are exposed through VMware Tools: Provides guest OS information of the nested ESXi Hypervisor (eg. IP address, configured hostname, etc.). Allows the nested ESXi VM to be cleanly shut down or restarted when performing power operations with the…