» Vagrant VMware Utility Installation

If there is no officially supported system package of the utility available,it may be possible to manually install utility. This applies to Linux platformsonly. First, download the latest zip package from the releases page.

Next create a directory for the executable and unpack the executable asroot.

After the executable has been installed, the utility setup tasks must be run. First,generate the required certificates:

Finally, install the service. This will also enable the service.

» Usage

The Vagrant VMware Utility provides the Vagrant VMware provider plugin accessto various VMware functionalities. The Vagrant VMware Utility is required bythe Vagrant VMware Desktop provider plugin.

The Vagrant VMware Utility provides support for all users on the system usingthe Vagrant VMware Desktop plugin. If access restrictions to the Utility needto be applied to users on the system, this can be accomplished by restrictinguser access to the certificates used for connecting to the service.

• C:\ProgramData\HashiCorp\vagrant-vmware-desktop\certificatesOn POSIX platforms these certificates can be found at:

• /opt/vagrant-vmware-desktop/certificates

The Vagrant VMware Utility consists of a small service which runs on thehost platform. When the utility installer package is installed, the serviceis configured to automatically start. If the plugin reports errors communicatingwith the service, it may have stopped for some reason. The most common cause ofthe service not being in a running state is the VMware application not beinginstalled. The service can be started again by using the proper command below:

> net.exe start vagrant-vmware-utility

> sudo sv start vagrant-vmware-utility