I am working on a product and we need to be able to have people properly shutdown the VM. For security reasons we don't want the entirety of the VMWare tools suite installed by default (most of it is not necessary for what the product does) but feel that the ability to shutdown the VM from the VSphere Manager is a necessity. Is it possible to install just this functionality into the VM by default (we do currently have the option of including the entire suite) without causing problems with the VM should the user decide to install the rest of the VMWare tools? If so, how can we do it?
Our product runs on a proprietary linux distro.
Thanks.