Retrieving Status Information About the Virtual Machine

You can view information about host time and CPU speed. For virtual machines hosted in a vSphere environment, you can view additional information about memory and CPU reservations and limits.
  1. Open a command prompt or terminal in the guest operating system.
  2. Change to the VMware Tools installation directory.
    Operating System
    Default Path
    Windows
    C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools
    Linux and Solaris
    /usr/sbin
    FreeBSD
    /usr/local/sbin
    Mac OS X
    /Library/Application Support/VMware Tools
  3. Type the command to display the status information.
    utility-name
    stat
    subcommand
    Option
    Action
    utility-name
    (On Windows)
    Use
    VMwareToolboxCmd.exe
    .
    utility-name
    (On Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD)
    Use
    vmware-toolbox-cmd
    .
    utility-name
    (On Mac OS X)
    Use
    vmware-tools-cli
    .
    subcommand
    Use
    hosttime
    or,
    speed
    , one of the subcommands available for virtual machines hosted in a vSphere environment.