A set of guest agents and drivers for improving virtual machine interaction with the hypervisor. Provides graceful shutdown, time synchronization, filesystem freeze for consistent snapshots.

Includes support for:

• open-vm-tools — guest utilities for VMware (vSphere, Workstation, Fusion): time sync, heartbeat for HA, shared folders, drag-and-drop, metrics collection
• qemu-guest-agent — agent for KVM/QEMU/Proxmox: power management, filesystem freeze during backup, command execution in guest OS via libvirt

Home pages:

• open-vm-tools - https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

• qemu-guest-agent - https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/GuestAgent