{"id":6993,"date":"2020-04-29T22:08:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:25:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:25:25","slug":"vmware-upgrade-vmware-tools-without-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/vmware-upgrade-vmware-tools-without-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware: Upgrade VMware tools without reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_6993 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_6993')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_6993').socialSharePrivacy({\"services\":{\"flattr\":{\"uid\":\"Michl\",\"status\":\"on\",\"the_title\":\"VMware%3A%20Upgrade%20VMware%20tools%20without%20reboot\",\"the_excerpt\":\"Hi%20%0D%0A%0D%0Aby%20default%20when%20upgrading%20the%20VMware%20tools%20of%20an%20VM%20and%20a%20reboot%20is%20requested%20the%20VM%20autmatically%20reboots%20after%20installation.%20%0D%0A%20%28more%26hellip%3B%29\",\"txt_info\":\"2 clicks for more data protection:\\r\\n\\r\\nOnly when you click here, the button will be come active and you can send your recommendation to Flattr. 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You have to do it manually.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi by default when upgrading the VMware tools of an VM and a reboot is requested the VM autmatically reboots after installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[206,119,387,718,1285,14,110,1253],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","tag-advanced","tag-install","tag-parameter","tag-reboot","tag-tools","tag-vmware-2","tag-vsphere","tag-without"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6996,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/6996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}