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VMware tools configuration
[*] Enable Loadable module support ---> [*] Enable loadable module support ---> [*] Module unloading

Intel PCI/ISA Bridge

Bus options (PCI etc.) ---> [*] PCI Support [*] ISA Support [*] EISA support <*> Support for PCI Hotplug ---> <*> SHPC PCI Hotplug driver Networking support

Network (2)
Networking options ---> <*> Packet socket <*> Unix domain sockets [*] TCP/IP networking <*> The IPv6 protocol ---> <*> 802.1d Ethernet Bridging

VSOCK (Linux 3.9)

<M> Virtual Socket protocol (VSOCKETS) <M> VMware VMCI transport for Virtual Sockets (VMWARE_VMCI_VSOCKETS) Device Drivers --->

devtmpfs
Generic Driver Options ---> [*] Maintain a devtempfs filesystem to mount at /dev

Parallel port (1)

<*> Parallel port support ---> <*> PC-style hardware

VMware Balloon
Misc devices ---> <M> VMware Balloon Driver

VMCI (Linux 3.9)

<M> VMware VMCI Driver (VMWARE_VMCI)

CD-ROM (2)
<*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ---> <*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support <*> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support

vmsync
[*] <*> <*> IDE Taskfile Access

CD-ROM
Generic PCI IDE chipset support Intel PIIX/ICH chipsets support

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Device Drivers --->

LSI Logic SCSI adapter (3)

SCSI device <*> SCSI <*> SCSI [*] SCSI support ---> device support disk support low-level drivers --->

BusLogic
<*> BusLogic SCSI support (1)

PVSCSI Support
<*> VMware PVSCSI driver support (2)

LSI Logic SCSI adapter

<*> SYM53C8XX Version 2 SCSI support (3)

Parallel ATA (4)

<*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers ---> <*> PCMCIA PATA support

Device mapper support (5)

[*] Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM) ---> <*> Device mapper support <*> Snapshot target <*> Bad Block Relocation Device Target (EXPERIMENTAL)

LSI Logic SCSI adapter (6)

[*] Fusion MPT <*> Fusion <*> Fusion <*> Fusion device support ---> MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI MPT ScsiHost drivers for FC MPT ScsiHost drivers for SAS

IEEE 1394 (7)

IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support ---> <*> FireWire driver stack <*> OHCI-1394 controllers <*> Storage devices (SBP-2 protocol)

Network (8)
You need to build the network drivers as modules to be able to unload them later and load VMware optimized modules. [*] Network device support ---> [*] Ethernet driver support ---> [*] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers [*] AMD Devices <M> AMD PCnet32 PCI support [*] Intel Devices <M> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support

VMXNET3 Device Support

<*> VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver

Gameport (9)
Input device support ---> Hardware I/O ports ---> <*> Gameport support

I2C (10)
-*- I2C Support ---> I2C Hardware Bus support ---> <*> Intel PIIX4 and compatible (ATI/Serverworks/Broadcom/SMSC)

Backplane (11)
Sonics Silicon Backplane ---> <*> Sonics Silicon Backplane support

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Device Drivers --->

Graphics (12)
Graphics support ---> <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) ---> <*> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support

Audio (13)
<M> Sound card support --- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture <M> Sequencer support < > Sequencer dummy client <M> OSS Mixer API <M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API [*] OSS PCM (digital audio) API - Include plugin system [*] OSS Sequencer API -*- Dynamic device file minor numbers [*] Support old ALSA API [*] Verbose procfs contents [*] Generic sound devices ---> [*] PCI sound devices ---> <M> (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 [*] USB sound devices ---> [*] PCMCIA sound devices --->

HID support (14)

[*] HID Devices ---> <*> USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support

HID support (15)

[*] USB support ---> <*> Support for Host-side USB <*> SL811HS HCD support File systems --->

CDROM (4)
CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems ---> <*> ISO 9660 CDROM file system support [*] Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions

udev support
Pseudo filesystems ---> -*- /proc file system support [ ] /proc/kcore support -*- Tmpfs virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)