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What is "Guest Authentication (vgauth)" and "Common Agent (caf)"?

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What do these (vgauth and caf) do exactly?  We recently upgraded to ESXi 6.0 and when I update VMware Tools on a Linux VM I am asked "Do you want to enable Guest Authentication (vgauth)? Enabling vgauth is needed if you want to enable Common Agent (caf). [yes]"  I don't recall being asked this in the past. Not being sure what this is I answered no and the install completed successfully.  By not installing what functionality will I be missing?  I've Googled for information but can find no explanation of what the "Common Agent" is or does.


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