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I recently installed Windows 2000 on VMware Workstation 15.5.2 and I tried to install VMware tools for windows 2000 but is showed me a popup that said "Microsoft Runtime DLLs cannot be installed on this operation system. Please see Microsoft KB835732 for detalies."

I recently installed VMWare Workstation Player 14 on my Linux workstation to run a Windows 10 development machine. The option to install VMware Tools in the Virtual Machine menu was greyed out and inaccessible, despite having already downloaded the Tools ISO's. Thinking this was due to using Player as an unlicensed non-commercial application, I purchased a license to try and remedy this (I need OpenGL support for what I'm working on). After licensing the app, this menu option was still greyed out. Then I realized that I could mount the ISO through the DVD Drive and install the tools this way. Doing so worked, but I would like to know if this required a license in the first place. As a student, $156 isn't chump change and would like to put in a refund/cancellation if a license is not required as I'm not doing any commercial work.

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Productizing VMware Tools. Yes, you heard it right. Now VMware Tools are independently available and can be downloaded as a separate product from my.vmware.com portal. This essentially means that VMware Tools will also feature in VMware Lifecycle Product Matrix, giving customers full visibility about VMware Tools lifecycle.

The use case is to be able to update VMtools (more specifically the NIC drivers) literally within minutes instead of potential hours, getting around the traditional reverse imaging method. Multiple that by the number of pvs vdisks and it can be a real time saver. If you look at my original post, follow and read that link, you should see how the idea is appealing.

if you disable the vmware NIC, then the vm loses connection to the pvs server, which makes sense because the pvs target device is installad on that NIC Card!...so I dont understand how can that ever work....

It is easier and better to install open-vm-tools from the Ubuntu repositories. Just open a virtual console to your VM and sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install open-vm-tools to use the operating system managed vmtools instead.

I am posting this here because I struggled with this and ultimately found the solution elegantly saved in another website which is no longer up (wayback machine: ://www.utterlyforked.com/vmware-fusion-5-and-cent-6-4/)

I was running some VMware tools updates following a new host addition and migration. All of the Windows servers completed their updates without issue except for an Exchange server, which promptly rebooted.

Edit: I usually manage Linux VMs with the VMwarr OSP's or open-vm-tools. Most of my Microsoft environments don't have an issue with this, but for some reason, the Exchange server whose tools I updated forced a reboot. OS was 2008R2, host was ESXi 6.0, current revision with matching hardware version.

After upgradit fmc 6.3 to 6.7, cannot start vmware tools. On system/configuration/VMware tools, after trying enable VMware tools, i got Error - Failed to enable VMware Tools. ESXi is supported version 6.7

This just worked for me as well under 7.0.1 the /usr/lib/vmware-tools directory did not exist on my system and the locate returned this error locate: Old-format locate database '/var/locatedb' is too short to be valid.

The question here is if the setting in vm-tools in any way affects the CV backup or if that setting is for something else completely and maybe even ignored. If it has an affect it would be interesting to know what that is and if I should recommend the customer to remove it.

So during an FS & Application consistent backup there is no integration with vmtools and VSS during the VADP initiated quiesce? Basically the vmtool setting to disable application quiesce is overridden by the VMware VADP-initiated, quiesced backup?

we are testing vmware on prime machine to cloud using ASR, the vm failed over to cloud but unable to fail back to on prim. subsequently deleted the cloud vm and started on prim vm and uninstalled mobility client etc, but the machine shows on ASR as "VMware tools are not installed for the selected VM" and unable to select for replication. the machine cloned with different SID still same. How we can clear any residual configuration data and start replicate again..

Looking at the issue description, i understand that the previous ASR replication flow has been broken post failover, the failback workflow was not followed as per the recommended steps available in ASR failback document : -us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-azure-prepare-failback, which landed it in this issue.

Glad to know you are able to replicate the VM by manually installing the agent and enabled protection.

For the second issue, where you are unable to install the Process Server on Azure for failback scenario, assuming you are following the procedure from -us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-azure-set-up-process-server-azure#deploy-a-process-server-in-azure

to deploy the failback process server.

Verify the VMware tools version after upgrading, you can use the vmware-toolbox-cmd -v command. The version should show as 10.3.25.1451 (build-20206839). You can also check the version in the vSphere client, where it should show as 10360 (Current).

Open VM Tools is the open source implementation of VMware Tools and consist of a suite of virtualization utilities that improves the functionality, administration, and management of virtual machines on VMware hypervisors. VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by the operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803, VMware support of open-vm-tools, at

VMware tools are specialized drivers for virtual hardware that is installed in the UC applications when they are running virtualized. It is important that the VMware tools version running in the UC application be in sync with the version of ESXi used. If the VMware tools status does not show "OK" from the viClient, the VMware tools must be upgraded.

It is important to understand that the UC application is not tied to the version of ESXi on which it is running. For example, initial deployment of the OVA and UC application may have been done on ESXi 4.0 update 1. Then, at a later time, you may upgrade the ESXi software to version 4.1 or migrate to a host running virtualization software VMware ESXi 4.1 or version 5.0. Once running on the different ESXi version, you will need to upgrade the VMware tools running in your UC application in order to match the host on which it is running. Software upgrades of the UC application will preserve the version of VMware tools currently running.

Note: This command updates the currently installed VMware tools to the latest version prescribed by the ESXi host for that VM. The system reboots twice. Monitor the virtual machine console from the vSphere Client in order to see the system status.

After installation of the new version of VMware tools is complete, remove the VMware tools tar file from the virtual CD/DVD drive. Typically, the VMware tools tar file is called linux.iso. In order to remove the VMware Tools tar file, complete these steps:

Should you decide to create your own VMware installation of Kali Linux (rather than using our pre-made VMware images), and you want to force a manual reinstall of open-vm-tools (as something has gone wrong), first make sure you are fully updated, then enter the following:

For every other OVA file I have pulled into ESXi, vmware tools has already been installed by the maker of the OVA or in one case I was able to get to the linux command line and install vmware tools myself

Request for integrating VMware tools will have to be made to the Developers. There may be plans to integrate the VMware tools in the iLO Amplifier pack in future based on the requirement, however there is no ETA on it for now.

VMware tools version 9.10.0 that ships with ClearPass 6.5.4 is incompatible with ESXi 5.5.

Workaround: Restart the ClearPass virtual machine to recover from this state. To enable snapshot

functionality, install a compatible version of VMware tools from the vSphere client. In the vSphere

client, right-click on ClearPass VM, select Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools, and then choose

the Automatic Tools Upgrade option. This will install VMware tools version 9.4.10, which enables

snapshot functionality.

VMware tools is software that negotiates between the Operating System (OS) and the virtual environment. It provides improved functionality in the operation and management of the virtual machine (for example: automatic grabbing and releasing of the mouse cursor) and drivers for the virtual hardware. Installing this feature is strongly recommended. MiServer managed VMs have tools installed by default.

Hardware specific drivers are usually related to the annoyances we just talked about, like choppy video or sound, so we still need some sort of replacement for them. VMware tools is that replacement. Think of VMware tools as the replacement for the hardware drivers provided by hardware vendors.

Besides the annoyances we just talked about, VMware tools also provides additional functionality. Remember, hardware abstraction is just one benefit of virtualization. There are many many benefits, another which is the ability to take a snapshot of a virtual machine.

After you click install or upgrade, you can continue the installation in the Guest OS. It is a good idea to always make sure you have installed VMware tools on any virtual machine templates you are deploying so you do not have to continue to do this process every time you create a new virtual machine.

You can also find an official article about open-vm-tools on the VMware KB here, however the great news for linux users it is distributed with many linux distributions since linux servers are so commonly deployed as virtual machines these days.

For example, if you are looking to install VMWare tools on Ubtuntu, it has been included in the main repository since version 14.04. To install VMware tools in Ubuntu, you just need the following command: be457b7860