How update the vmware tools on the guest or virtualcenter

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• How to install VMware Tools in Ubuntu guest with no Internet connectivity?

  I need to install VMware Tools in a Guest Ubuntu (10.04) running in VMware Player.

  The machine on which it is running has no internet access; It is part of an isolated network.

  I know there are a LOT of instructions on how to do it, and it seems that they all begin with "mount your ISO file...". ' or "click"Install VMware Tools..."."

  Of course, I have not and cannot find a file ISO of VMware tools for Ubuntu.  I admit that I can be looked in the wrong place, but I watched several times and have spent many hours on it.   I tried Open VM Tools as well and followed the instructions included, but orders did not produce the responses described.

  When I click on "Install VMware Tools" the machine just made several attempts to connect to a server that will never happen.

  Although it does not prove that I know what I'm doing, I installed VMware Tools on several hosts of Windows XP.  For some reason, I was able to find many versions of VMware Tools for Windows ISO.  The installation worked everytime with very little hair loss.

  Thanks for any help on this eternal question.

  You will need to download the ISO images for the VMware Tools installation media at least once, on a computer with internet access.  Player menu--> File--> Preferences of the player.  Click on the button download now all components.  Once complete, there will be 6 ISO files in the folder of the player.  You can copy them to the same location on the PC that you are currently underway.  Then, you can follow the instructions to install VMware Tools in a Linux Guest, located in the help file.

• How to install VMWare Tools for Ubuntu 9.10 (VMWare Fusion 3.0.0)

  I am new to Ubuntu and I can't understand how to install VMWare Tools - what I need to do this from a command line?  Any guidance would be appreciated.

  To manually install, choose computer virtual > install VMware Tools, a file must window popup with VMwareTools - 8.2.3 - 204229.tar.gz you can right click to expand only in / tmp.  Then in Applications > Accessories > Terminal, cd to/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib and run sudo./vmware-install.pl

• Intall the guest operating system updates or VMware Tools first?

  I have the OS (Windows 2000 Professional), which comes with all the major updates to release all the way until 2010. Goes for the installation order, do I install the first updates (requires Direct X 9.0 c as well), or the first VMware tools?

  
  

  Thank you for all responses.

  I'm not aware of a formal recommendation. I usually install VMware Tools after the installation of the guest OS and never encountered any problems with this approach to date.

  André

• How update the local copy of ESXi of VMware tools?

  Our two ESXi servers have version 8.0.1 of the VMware tools on the local drive (vmfs/volumes / < ID > packages/5.0.0/vmtools), but the current version is 9.0.

  Right now, I manually downloaded copies of the tools directly to the host of the virtual computer, but how to update local copy of ESXi disk? I was going to just crush the 8.0.1 files, but I noticed there is a manifest file as well, which contains a large number of version numbers and I didn't break anything. Is there a way with support update installers the?

  VM tools are retro-compatible, so it should work. I recommend however, as you will introduce a manual process you need to manage and I did not belive you will have any advantage by doing so. the complexity more you add, the greater the risk of things go wrong.

  I however would patch the hosts to the latest version and using the tools provided with this version.

  For more information on the hosts patching of the command line, see this link below;

  http://blogs.VMware.com/vSphere/2012/02/quickest-way-to-patch-an-esxesxi-using-the-command-line.html

• The Installation of VMWare tools failed. In any case to force the update/install VMWare tools?

  I used to use VMware Workstation 10 and recently upgraded to VMware workstation 11.  However, whenever I try to install a newer version of VMware tools, it will fail with message saying something like "VMware Tools can be installed in the Virtual Machine.

  Yes, I am trying to install VMware Tools within the guest operating system, but I get this notification for all my virtual machines, I'm running.

  I'm under 6 Virtual Machines simultaneously and they run on Windows 7 32 bit OS and configured with 4 GB of RAM, 1CPU, 100GB HD + 5 GB second HD for the swap file, NO printer, no sound card.

  For each virtual machine, I changed about 50 + key of Windows registry and detect the values to hide from all the programs that they are running on the virtual machine.

  I assume due to records, I changed, it confuses VM installer who it is not running on a Virtual Machine.  Then I tried to change all these registers changed to send it back to the original value, yet I is always the same message.

  I must be missing either some registry values or values that I restored is false. But I don't know which is the case.

  I can simply delete all my Virtual Machines and start again with the new virtual machine, but I don't want to repeat this process whenever a newer version of the VM tools out. and installation of windows and search and replace registry values for each virtual computer is full of works.

  So, here is my question.  Anyone know how to force the update / install VM tools in my virtual machine?

  P.S. I added under scripts in the file .vmx for each of the virtual machines.  I don't think it would cause the problem but just in case I include it.

  SVGA.vramsize = 268435456

  monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "" true ".

  insulation. Tools.getptrlocation.Disable = 'true '.

  insulation. Tools.setptrlocation.Disable = 'true '.

  insulation. Tools.setVersion.Disable = 'true '.

  insulation. Tools.GetVersion.Disable = 'true '.

  monitor_control.disable_directexec = 'true '.

  SMBIOS.reflecthost = 'true '.

  memtrimrate = '0 '.

  mainmem.usenamedfile = "false".

  sched.mem.pshare.Enable = "false".

  prefvmx.userecommendedlockedmemsize = 'true '.

  Tent Installer to get the version information of the hypervisor of underling to see if it is a VM or not.  This is done by contacting by back door.

  Setting monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"prevents communication."

• How to install vmware tools in a virtual machine running in the drive on an Ubuntu host?

  I have a host of Ubuntu (Ubuntu LTS 14.04.2)

  I have a virtual of Fedora (4.0.4 - 301.fc22.x86_64) and I would like to install vmware tools in the virtual machine.

  When I select the player VirtualMachine-> reinstall VMware Tools...

  I get a prompt in a box on the screen.  It is said:

  The following software are available for download:

  VMware Tools for Linux version 9.9.3

  What do you do?

  X Cancel |  Download and install

  Of course I choose to download and install (kind of silly question - why I want to cancel?)

  So instead of download the tools I want to install, it says:

  Your permission is required to install an update to VMware.

  Please enter the root password to move forward.

  Password: __________

  not serious.  Now, he's looking for what root password?  The virtual machine or the host?

  I have try the virtual machine and it works-not "incorrect password... try again."

  ... well Ubuntu is not a root user.  So, I try the password for the user with root privileges

  "incorrect password... try again."

  Then, he does not.

  Not very satisfying.

  The instructions that I found in my research right you will say to take the step to obtain the Tools package then (well, nothing of the rest of it is important if the tools are not available to me).

  Suggestions?  Advice?

  The required password is for the host.

  A workaround of functions is "sudo su -" of ubuntu host, then start vmplayer from the root prompt.  You must browse the virtual machine since the user doesn't have a history of openness yet... but then there is no prompt asking for a password when you try to download the tools.

• How have the guest OS disk cleaning disc space come on for the host operating system hard drive?

  People,

  Hello. I use VM Player 3. The OS is Windows 7. Guset OS is Windows Server 2003.

  Because the host OS Windows 7 C drive is nearly full, I need disk cleanup for drive space in Guset OS Windows Server 2003.

  Guest OS Windows Server 2003 VM hard drive parameters:

  Size current 92.5 GB,

  Maximum size of 150 GB.

  I use Disk Cleanup tool to clean C:\Document and Settings\Temp\ and temporary Internet Files\ administrator to get 32 GB of disk space. Now my computer in Windows Server 2003:

  Used space: 59.2 GB

  86.2 GB of free space

  145GB total space

  But when I check again Windows Server 2003 VM hard drive settings, its current size is 92.5 GB and is not afraid to 59.2 GB after cleaning. Host operating system Windows 7 disc does not come more disk space after cleaning.

  My Player VM VM-> settings is not a function of "Shrink" and the program does not "vmware - vdiskmanager.exe" file to run the function of 'shrink '.

  My question is:

  How to get the approximately 32 GB (92, 5-59, 2 GB) of disk space happen on Windows Server 2003 VM settings and drive hard host operating system Windows 7?

  Thank you.

  People,

  Hello. VMware Tools has tab Shrink to reduce the virtual disk. But the free disk space hard host should be larger that the size of the virtual disk you are reduced to shrink.

  The problem is solved by myself. Thank you.

• How to install VMware Tools on Ubuntu 9.10 guest?

  Hello!

  I have VMware 6.5.3 for Windows. I installed Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit and I don't know how to install tools guest inside Linux. Guest Windows, it's a blink of an eye, but here are more complicated. Can someone help me with step by step tutorial how to install this on Ubuntu 9.10? I'm newbie here.

  When I click the button to install the tools I just get open File Browser with the file .txt, RPM and gz. Any file I click on I can't run Setup. Please help!

  It's a little more complicated because each OS has a core (all about that), and Linux, you can have different versions of kernel.  Thus, the shell script (files ending in .sh) compiles all the binaries against what you have.  I believe that the version of Ubuntu has headers of the kernel with it, so that you would do is:

  1. go to places, downloads (the desktop menu bar)

  2. find your gz file, right click and select Extract here (I normally do it from the command-line using tar - zxvf, but this should work too)

  3. open this directory, right-click on the vmware-install file and select "Run as a program" (in this way you can kick it off)

  4. open a terminal (command prompt) and cd to that directory (should be cd downloads/vmware-tools-distrib)

  5. Type sudo./vmware-install.sh

  6. Enter your password when prompted, then go with the default values, and you should be set.  Make sure to run the configuration script (it will ask you if you want to, and you do, but if you mess up that part you can run it later so no biggie) and then sign out and sign back in.  You should not need to reboot and everything should work immediately.

  At boot, you might see no ERROR.  It's probably the HGFS mount is not working due to no shared directories.  Don't worry about this for now.  If it bugs you, you can comment on him in/etc/fstab (but don't mess with it until you're a bit better).  Snapshots are your friend, so use it as your rescue as trash several times your VM Linux, because it will happen.

  Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8 GB of RAM

  MCSA/MCSE 2003, MCTS, RHCT

• How to install VMWare Tools in Ubuntu 8.10 Guest OS?

  I looked the next thread here, but this is way old (Ubuntu 6.x):

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/428969;JSESSIONID=7A16F01D571165B826B38BF758A9E0A1

  I stumbled across this thread here as well (but there is no answer):

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1128951

  Could we please get a simple tutorial step by step on how to get the VMWare Tools running on the guest operating system Ubuntu 8.10?

  I am running VMWare Workstation 6.5 (build 118166), on a host Windows Vista Ultimate x 64, and I installed "Ubuntu 8.10 Server" guest OS, but have been unable to get the VMWare Tools to install on the Ubuntu 8.10 Server guest operating system.

  I ran into the problems mentioned here:

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1128951

  Could we please get a simple step by step tutorial how install the VMWare Tools under Ubuntu 8.10 Server (x 86) guest operating system?

  Thank you

  Mark

  To add the tools to start, try to add the entries you need to preferences-> Sessions-> startup programs

  A new message with details on how to accomplish this would be a very good thing, because this application is a lot around here.

  Thank you!

• Satellite P750 (PSAY1A) - How update the recovery partition?

  Now that I found out that using the recovery on a new HARD drive would create the recovery Partition... comes the question... How do I update the recovery partition.

  My Toshiba Satellite P750 (PSAY1A-01Y022) the factory settings has 132 update of Windows that should be applied during the first pass. I had to run Windows update 4 times before she shows "up-to-date". Not to mention drivers Toshiba as well.

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  Does anyone have experience updating the recovery Partition?

  > Now that I found out that using the recovery on a new HARD drive would create the recovery Partition... comes the question... How do I update the recovery partition.

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• Satellite A40: How update the BIOS because I only have half of the Bios

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  Why not? What are the risks in need to know.

  Please help me because I want to in the future might be upgraded to vista?

  Hello Daniel,.

  I'm a little confused about your message from Mr.
  What do you mean with half of the bios is enough?
  What s wrong with the BIOS?

  The support from Toshiba said-> try a BIOS update.
  On the Toshiba page, you can download the BIOS for Satellite A40.

  It seems you didn't check the download page detailed because on this page you will find this statement:
  IOS http://eu.Computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/FAQ.jsp?z=234&service=eu&from=faq_selection&CFID=B & FID = TRO0000000b07

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• How update the calendar in the mapping of period FDMEE source

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  We would like to know how to add details to the year 2015... where this timetable is maintained.

  Our source is Peoplesoft General Ledger and target is "ARM."

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• ScriptUI: How update the values from Listbox? (CC2014)

  Is there a way to update item listbox that filled with the elements of the array JS. If I push more items in the table, how do I re - make in ScriptUI? Is there any way to do this.

  I know there are average just to add items to the listbox as in PDF of Peter Kahrel. But it's not so dynamic:

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      }
  
      win.show();
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  There may be some update on ScriptUI funtion. I tried to look for the solution without success. Any help?

  I've updated your own script to show how I removed the listbox

  I added a group to host the listbox control, the purpose of the group is to be used as a placeholder (to add the new listbox to the right place) and easily get the listbox to delete

  // listboxEditFromJSArray.jsx - Sakari Niittymaa
  // https://forums.adobe.com/message/6785515 
  
  //#target illustrator 
  
  // Create example array
  var testArr = ['item1', 'item2', 'item3']; 
  
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      // Main Window
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      win.orientation = "column";
      win.alignChildren = ["fill", "fill"]; 
  
      // Listbox Group
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      grpListbox.alignChildren = ['fill', 'fill'];
  
      var myListbox = addListBox (grpListbox, testArr); 
  
      // add ListBox
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          var listbox = container.add("listbox", undefined, testArr,
              {
              numberOfColumns: 1,
              showHeaders: true,
              columnTitles: ['Name']
          });
  
          return listbox;
    }
  
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      addItem.onClick = function() {
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      } 
  
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      } 
  
      // Update listbox items
      function updateListboxArray(listbox) { 
  
          // Clear listbox first
          listbox.removeAll(); 
  
          // Create new listbox items from array
          var i = 0;
          while (listbox.items.length < testArr.length) {
              listbox.add ("item", testArr[i]);
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      } 
  
      // Quit BTN
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          win.close();
      } 
  
      // Window Settings
      win.onResizing = function () { this.layout.resize(); };
      win.onShow = function () { win.layout.resize(); };
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      win.show();
  }