Download Vmware Tools

To install VMware tools for Linux and Windows virtual machines the users just need to perform a few simples steps given in this article.

Like Oracle VirtualBox extension pack to add extra features for the installed virtual machines, the VMware also offers the VMware tools.

After installing the VMware tools which is a pack of different utilities offered by VMware the user will notice an improvement in the performance of the guest operating systems. It will improve the low Low video resolution,
Inadequate colour depth, restricted movement of the mouse, Inability to copy and paste and drag-and-drop files, Incorrect display of network speed, Missing sound, give the ability to snapshots of the guest OS and synchronizes the time.

Index of /45848/tools/releases/latest Name Last modified Size Parent Directory 01-Jan-1970 00:00 - README 10-Nov-2020 03:52 1k repos 06-Nov-2020 08:31 - rhel5 08-May. The actual developer of the free software is VMware, Inc. Our antivirus check shows that this download is malware free. This free PC software is developed for Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 environment, 32 and 64-bit versions. The software lies within Business Tools, more precisely General. Download VMware Workstation Pro VMware Workstation Pro is the industry standard desktop hypervisor for running virtual machines on Linux or Windows PCs. Start your free, fully functional 30-day trial today. How the VMware Tools download works. VMware Tools comes along with ESXi deployment, which simplifies the process of their installation and upgrade. Typically, VMware Tools can be installed and upgraded automatically using vSphere Client. To download the Tools for various platforms, just click on the File menu, and select Player preferences. Under the Software Updates, click on Download All Components Now. Note that the below screenshots present an already running virtual machine, but it does not need to run for the Player to download the tools.

The process of the VMware tools installation is the same for Linux such as Ubuntu, Kali, Linux Mint, Debian, Centos, OpenSuse, etc including Windows10/8/7 or any.

Download and Install VMware Tools on Linux and Windows 10/8/7

Step 1: Run VMware Workstation player

First of all, open the VMware workstation payer where you have installed the Linux and Windows virtual machines.

Step 2: Select and start VirtualMachine

After opening the VMware player, select the Virtual machine which you want to run and where you want to install the Vmware tools. It could Windows 10/8/7 or any Linux Distro.

Step 3: Find the Install VMware Tools option

When the Virtual Machine booted completely then go to the Player option given in the VMware player menu. Click on that and then click on the Manage->Install Vmware Tools option.

Step 4: Downloading Vmware Tools

As we click on the Install Vmware tools option, the Player automatically detects the system and download Vmware tool for Linux or Windows respectively.

Step 5: Installing VMware Tools on Linux

On Windows, the installation of Vmware Tools is super easy after downloading the Vmware player simply mount that under CD-Rom automatically from where the user can install it just like any other normal software. However, it is also the same for GUI based Linux operating systems too.

As you can see in the below screenshot, the VMware Tools has been mounted and shown with CD-ROM icon on the screen.

To install this open the command terminal and follow the below-given commands:

Create a directory cdrom to mount the Vmware tools disc

Now, mount the Cdrom to above-created cdrom directory

See the list of files mounted under the directory

Copy the VMwareTools compress file name and use with below copy command. Like in our case it was VMwareTools-10.3.2-9925305.tar.gz and might be different while you are installing it. So, copy that one and paste with below command:

Here we are copying the VmwareTools to a temporary directory for the installation process.

Switch to the Temporary directory…

List the files and extract the VMware tools compress file

Now change the directory to the directory extracted by the Vmware tools which is VMware-tools-distrib

Run Perl script as mentioned below

Press or hit Enter key couple of times to select the default options of these tools…

The output of the above commands

Second Method: Direct Download VMware tools

If you are not able to download the tools from the interface of Vmware player; then visit the official website of Vmware and download Vmware tools directly to install.

Here is the link fordownloading.

In this way, we can install Vmware tools on Linux or windows

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This post is to share the information about how to manually download VMware tools ISO image for various Operating systems based on VMware vSphere versions including the latest version of vSphere such as vSphere 6.5 . VMware tools varies for each and every operating system. When we try to install or Upgrade VMware tools using vSphere client, It will automatically mount the associated VMware tools ISO into virtual CD ROM drive of your virtual machine based on the Guest Operating system of the virtual machine. If in case you face any problem with mounting VMware tools ISO image to the virtual machine using vSphere client, you can manually download VMware tools ISO image from the VMware website and install it manually on the respective guest operating system.

Download Vmware Tools 11.0.5

You can even download the complete list of VMware tools available for various operating systems and place it in your organization repository to be used by administrators. It will make your job easy. VMware tools helps to optimize the performance of your virtual machine using ESX/ESXi hypervisor resource management mechanisms.

Manually Download VMware Tools ISO Image

Download VMware Tools frompackages.vmware.com. You can select the version of vSphere to download the VMware tools. I have Selected ESXi 6.5p01

Download Vmware Tools Linux

After selecting the ESX/ESXi version, It will allow us to select the Operating system to download VMware tools ISO image version for the respective operating system

I have selected Windows in the above section and intern it will ask you to select either 32 bit or 64 bit of VMware tools version for the windows operating system.

Download Vmware Tools Mac

Choose either X64 or X86 based on your operating system of the Virtual Machine. It will allow you to download VMware tools .exe file and also allow you to download VMware tools ISO image.

That’s it. You are done with the manual download of VMware tools ISO image for your guest operating system. I hope this post is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!!

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