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The Virtual Guests tab of a device


Virtual guests are virtual machines that were discovered on the devices of your network with or without CM agents .

The the following virtual machine software products are supported by CM :

Platform

Vendor

Software

Version

Windows

Oracle Corporation

Oracle VM VirtualBox

3.x

RingCube Technologies, Inc.

vDesk Client

2.x and 3.x

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

VirtualBox

2.x and 3.x

VMware, Inc.

VMware Player

1.x, 2.x and 3.x

VMware Server

2.x

VMware Workstation

5.x, 6.x anf 7.x

Linux

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Xen

3.x

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

VirtualBox

3.x

MAC OS X

Parallels

Parallels Desktop

4.x

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

VirtualBox

2.x

VMware, Inc.

VMware Fusion

2.x

After the CM agent has detected a virtual guest on a device it collects the following basic information about this guest:

  • Virtual device name
  • MAC address
  • Guest member ID
  • Descriptive or friendly name of the virtual device
  • Operating system

The agent also collects different types of inventory, however you cannot view these data in the current view. To view the collected inventory you need to create a group collecting the required virtual machines and under these you can view the inventories, either as a group or individually.

  • Hardware inventory
  • Software inventory

You can execute the following actions on the guest members of a device:

  • Remotely access the virtual machine
  • Access its inventory summary
  • Start, stop, pause and resume the machine
  • Display its properties
  • Use the Direct Access Tools

 

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BMC Client Management 12.1