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• 7 - fusion '3D Acceleration requires an update of the VMware tools in the Virtual Machine'

  Hello

  I installed the free Fusion 7 trial this week on my iMac and subsequently installed Windows 8.

  The resolution of the screen under Windows is very low compared to the Mac OS.

  In addition, I have the warning message in the Windows display settings:

  '3D acceleration requires an update of the VMware tools in the Virtual Machine'

  I also note that the display driver in Windows is the display driver database with Microsoft.

  A few weeks ago I installed version 6 of Fusion and it worked very well.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you

  John.

  Take a look at the installation and the use of the VMware tools and more spicifically to manually install or upgrade VMware Tools in a Windows Virtual Machine.

  If by chance, VMware Fusion is not properly mounting image VMware Tools windows.iso file then you have to do it manually.  It is located in "/ Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/isoimages/windows.iso" and will have to be copied, not moved, in a location that is accessible out of the bundle of VMware Fusion.app as the office.  If you need to do this, you can right click on the bundle of VMware Fusion.app see the content of the selection box and access its location to copy.  To assign the windows.iso on the CD/DVD image, take a look at: Connect and Set Up a CD/DVD Drive

• Update the VMware Tools?

  Last night, I ran the following command powercli hoping to update VMware tools on some of my virtual machines without having to restart the virtual machine.  The script seems to work very well as the tools to update properly, but unfortunately all the VM was restarted as soon as the update is complete.

  Can someone check my code and tell me what I am wrong?

  Get-Content "c:\scripts\txt_files\VMs.txt" | ForEach-Object {Get-VM-name $_ |} Update-tools - NoReboot - RunAsync}

  Thank you

  Jason

  Hi jason,

  the script is good. Using the update tool - NoReboot parameter is said:

  Indicates that you do not want to restart the system after the update of the VMware Tools. This parameter is supported only for the Windows operating systems. NoReboot shall provide all of the following options for the Setup program of the VMware Tools on the guest OS:

  /s /v "/qn REBOOT = ReallySuppress"

  However, the virtual machine may still restart after the update of VMware Tools, according to the currently installed version of VMware Tools and the version of VMware Tools that you want to upgrade vCenter Center/ESX versions.

  Looks like you had a version of VMware Tools requiring a reboot.

• The VMWare Tools on Windows 2003 Svr Setup error

  Hello

  I'm using VMWare Workstation 9.0.1 build-894247 under Win 7 x 64 and and try to install VMWare tools on a WIndows 2003 Svr Standard guest but keep getting the error "Error 1335 the cabinet file 'Toolbox.cab' required for this installation is damaged and cannot be used...". "The installation of Win 2003 SP2 and all updates from MS, I got this error several times.

  A screenshot is attached.

  Any suggestions?

  I have no problem with installation/update of the VMWare tools for other Windows guests that I recently installed.

  Thank you

  John Davis

  Verify that the checksum MD5 or SHA1 of the file windows.iso in the working directory of VMware Workstation is as indicated below.

  For version windows.iso of VMware Tools file 9.2.2.894247:

  MD5 = 8d9a47fddf3988bb1fcb62bb21d3fa8f
  SHA1 = 6a55b0d276a3442589d6a4892fa8759e8ca42712
  

  These values have been generated, based on the extracted windows.iso file of Tools-windows - 9.2.2.exe.tar should be the same one included in the WS 9.0.1 installed.  Note: The checksum SHA256 for the file windows-tools - 9.2.2.exe.tar has been verified against its value published prior to extraction.

• Update the VMWare tools on all machines virtual Windows

  Is it possible to use the PowerCLI update the VMWare tools on all virtual Windows machines to the latest version. I know I can do this individuall but I wanted to see if there a way to use something similar to a for each loop through a virtual machine at a time. I'm new to the power of vmware and the vix api cli and it's the first task I am trying automate (automating installation of all guests including linux would be perfect if I could loop through all clients using the same command). I am a new detailed explanations would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Loren

  It's pretty simple in his PowerCLI, you combine just 2 cmdlets with a pipeline.

  Get - VM | Update-Tools

  You can make the choice of the guests a little more complex.

  For example:

  Get-VM-name Srv * | Update-Tools

  will update only the tools on customers whose name starts with SRV.

  See the cmdlet Get - VM for more details.

  You can also set it update tools should immediately reboot if necessary.

  What you can do with the NoReboot parameter on the cmdlet Update-Tools .

  Get-VM-name Srv * | Update-tools - NoReboot

• Unable to connect to the desktop after the Vmware tools update

  Hey guys,.

  I have problems with a Samsung PCoIP device if it refuses to connect to the virtual machine windows 7 since vmware tools has been updated

  I know very little about vmware view, when he tries to connect it connects to the server vmware view, swimming pool and looks like it is going to connect, but all I get is a black screen, then turned to the login prompt

  The PCoIP device can ping the virtual machine

  I can connect to the computer via RDP virtual

  VMware View version 4.6.0 build-366101

  Any help would be great

  The VMware tools install probably brought to light the specific video driver for VMware view. Try reinstalling VMware View Agent and be careful on the VMware Tools updates.

• Update the Vmware tools in Labmanager VM?

  Hi all.

  Is it possible to update on all vmware tools deployed and powerd on VMs in Labmanager (except the average maual)?

  If this is not the case, is it safe to install vmware tools fron VIC or commands CMD VC?  I do not have is why it not but just to be sure!

  How do you manage upgrades of vmware tools you let users do when they open the environment or do you go for them?

  If later how do you manage the attendance you deploy update of the tools one captures again or?

  Happy for any input

  MatsRob

  In our own environments, delegate us the task of maintaining the VM to date with the patches/vmwaretools versions/etc for the owners of the virtual machine.

  No, there is no particular danger with the help of VC to upgrade vmwaretools.  Note that the machine may need to be cancelled and re-deployed, sometimes a couple of times, so that the Director of the laboratory of actually know about it.  This usually is not serious except in the cases where the virtual machine has a history long import/export and was originally a virtual machine on esx 3.0.x or earlier.

  Also note that the machine must be registered in order for VC to do something with it, it can actually be more manual effort to use vc update: you will need to deploy in LM, then switch to a vi client framework; Thus, although the update of the tools in the CR is often a little less manual effort, could put an end to this changing context up doomed to failure if you would not actually save a lot of time.

  Finally, you're right, libraries are statict, then Yes, you will need to consult the library, update tools, come back in the new library, delete the old and consolidate if necessary if you have above the string length clone about 20 or so related.

• Update the VMware Tools without installing gcc

  Hello everyone,

  I have a couple of boxes Debian and Ubuntu (& gt; 100) in various race DMZ. When I am updating the linux kernel, I have to update the VMware tools as well. My problem is that these boxes are not allowed to have an Internet connection and an installed gcc.

  Does anyone has an idea how Handel who? Is it not possible to have a central host where the new version of VMware tools are compiled and one can distribute them to other boxes?

  Thanks in advance!

  Robert

  Hello

  See http://communities.vmware.com/message/786017 for assistance.

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• DPS 2015 Build releases - must update us the signature tool?

  Every 3 weeks, a new build is released to 2015 DPS with new features and bug fixes.  When these new versions are released, should update us our signature tool and any other active provided Adobe DPS 2015 we can use?

  No need to update the signature only tool, it rarely changes. If/when he does it's usually just to provide better error messages for the signature of the errors we see in nature, no not to change the kernel that underlie the signature mechanism.

  If an update of the signature tool is necessary it would be listed in our notes.

  Neil

• How to launch and use the VMware tools

  After installing 2008r2 as a virtual machine and install VMware Tools, I am unable to open the tools and use them.  I did two days of searching, and I can't find an answer to my problem.    Downstairs is an action I took, but I would appreciate any help from the community.

  Purpose:

  Laboratory at home training and certification.

  Hardware environment: (based on "Chris Wahl" home Build Lab)

  SuperMicro Motherboard MBD-X10SLH-F-O

  Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 3.30 GHz processor with 32 GB of ram

  Software environment:

  64-bit version of Windows 7 Professional, host operating system

  VMware Workstation 10 with all updates installed with administrator privileges

  VM #2: vSphere 5.1 install

  VM #1: The Windows 2008R2 VM I have a problem with VMware tools.

  I've deleted and rebuilt the two VM three times now, thinking it was my environment somehow.  ESXi 5.1 works although I have not built anything there yet.  I am able to access this part of the laboratory fine of vSphere Client.

  VMware Tools:

  Within the Services of VM 2008 I can see VMware Tools started service, the icon in the system tray notification area and see the files on the C: drive of the virtual computer, but there is no way to open it.

  I followed several links to create a virtual laboratory, but should not be this hard to run a program.  It's my first time that you try to use VMware tools, but I'm following the steps in the lab below install procedures.

  In the middle of the page of "Blog Editor" part 4 "build the ultimate vSphere Lab is where it installs the VMware tool and lowest after restarting Windows Update service I'm stuck to the next step."

  "Open VMware Tools, go to the Shrink ."  Click on the button of the prepare to shrink . »

  ?  How to "open the VMware Tools?

  Now on the path I have searched for and deleted and reinstalled the tools, but always without success.

  Here is a link where I found the following measures to be taken, but it doesn't work either.  The "NOTE" at the bottom, it's something I noticed and made sure was right when I installed the last time tools.

  I even found a link to where you can download the tools separately from the ISO files, and yet, it does not work.  A LITTLE HELP PLEASE!

  http://www.vdsyn.com/Windows-2008-R2-virtual-machine-VMware-tools-shows-not-running-current-after-vmotionsnapshot-operations-randomly/

  So next step that we did was
  1 uninstalled VMware Tools in the virtual machine
  2 restarted the VM
  3. manually deleted/renamed the C:\Program VMware Tools
  4. manually deleted/renamed C:\Programdata\VMware\VMware tools
  5 Rebooted
  6. install the VMware tools
  7 Rebooted

  The issue is not reproducible after the same

  
  NOTE: Make sure that the virtual computer CD player points to the correct image.  I found it always go back to the windows 7 iso image on my C: drive from physical machines to where the image 2008r2 was on drive E:

  No need to reinstall again. You're not missing something. VMware has changed the VMware Tools tray and removed options that were available in previous versions. Take a look at for example experience front of VMware: The VMware Tools GUI is gone - now what? with some information about this change and the replacement of the command line.

  André

• The VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is not accessible

  I have a few virtual machines with a yellow exclamation mark on the vmware tools icon indicating that they can be updated. When I try and update vmware tools manually, I get the error: "VMware ISO image tools exist or is inaccessible. See the error of the stack for more details on the cause of this problem". Below in the window of the error stack, I see messages, 'called 'VirtualMachine.MountToolsInstaller' or object < servername > ESXi '192.168.3.39' failed. Cannot install VMware Tools. An error occurred trying to access the image file ' / usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso ' to install VMware Tools: 0 (input/output error). If your product comes with the module of VMware tools, VMware ESX to reinstall, then try again to install the VMware Tools package in the virtual machine. »

  I got messages stating I must check vmtools directory symbolic links and I think that those who are present. I also tried to manually navigate to the image file, but it seems that there is a problem any with the file system. See the images below:

  

  ESXi installed on a USB key. The directory of the iso images is corrupt? Can anyone help me on how can I fix? Should I just replace the USB key, or is there another way?

  See the input / output error on the screen usually indicates a faulty drive (or in this case device USB). I wouldn't waste a lot of time and replace the USB key.

• How to apply the VMware-tools-linux - 8.3.2 - 257589.iso to ESXi 4.1 CD Version?

  Hi I'm new to ESXi. I downloaded the CD Version of ESXi 4.1 and installed chickadee on a server.

  When I tried to apply the VMWare Tools in a Linux guest I get error of vShere customer:

  ' / usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso' not found

  • Need the ISO Image is not installed *.

  I searched the forums and found that VMWare-Tools are only in the DVD Version, but not in CD version

  to ESXi 4.1.

  In VMWare download area I found VMWare-Tools for Linux OSes', after the download, I get:

  Iso VMware-tools-linux - 8.3.2 - 257589.iso contains:

  VMWARETO. TGZ

  MANIFESTO. TXT

  How to apply this driver/patch my ESXi Server?

  Thanks for the help!

  With ESXi 4.1, you have an option for "Image CD VMware Tools for operating systems invited ISO Linux", for more information, please visit http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1024047

  Hope this helps!

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• Rule gold for the resettlement of the VMWare Tools?

  "The VMware Tools package includes a display driver that has been optimized for the guest operating system running in a virtual machine."

  KB http://bit.ly/bdXGhX

  Is this compatible with the other components of tools? This makes me think that the only factors that affect installation tools are the guest operating system and the host operating system, but that doesn't seem fair to me.

  I wonder what situations dictate that the tools be reinstalled on an existing virtual machine?  For example:

  VM moves a version of workstation player, ESXi, to another (5 WS WS 6, ESX ESX 3.5 3.0). Some requiring the use of the converter except with worms backward compatibility.

  VM moves product i.e. ESXi on workstation, the desktop player. I think that this is supported only through the help of converter, but sometimes operates independently.

  VM moves from machine A to machine B / Server A, Server B both using the same product. (Share/copy a virtual machine)

  Move VM includes change of machine and version.

  Put VM at level in a newer version of the workstation.

  etc...

  In my experience sometimes changes invites for a relocation/development tools while other times there are no complaints of the virtual machine. If the performance takes a hit seems to be hit or miss, and it reduces the field to tools is difficult because of the variety of hardware and software factors. The only advice that I seem to be able to find is "install VMWare Tools".

  Hello

  Sorry did not read the article linked, but...

  Is this compatible with the other components of tools? This makes me think that the only factors that affect installation tools are the guest operating system and the host operating system, but that doesn't seem fair to me.

  No, it's not, the VMware product and version used also play an important role.

  Rule of thumb here is that you want to keep the version of VMware Tools in sync. While their is certainly backwards compatibility, there is no guarantee that it will work well if not a match.

  VM moves a version of workstation player, ESXi, to another (5 WS WS 6, ESX ESX 3.5 3.0). Some requiring the use of the converter except with worms backward compatibility.

  If you move between the major releases of the product you want to reinstall VMware Toools

  VM moves product i.e. ESXi on workstation, the desktop player. I think that this is supported only through the help of converter, but sometimes operates independently.

  If you keep the main synchronized versions then it usually works very well. So you can move a machine virtual merger 3.0.x to workstation 7.0.x for Server 2.0.x (even to vSphere ESX) without reinstalling VMware Tools. With vSphere, this depends somewhat on the guest like e.g. vSphere can't stand aero, so you would have no problem to a VM Win7 native of vSphere Workstation, but a native Win7 VM from Workstation to vSphere his video card driver needs changed.

  VM moves from machine A to machine B / Server A, Server B both using the same product. (Share/copy a virtual machine)

  Normally, no relocation is necessary if the VMware product is at the same level of review.

  Move VM includes change of machine and version.

  See previous answer

  Put VM at level in a newer version of the workstation.

  It depends on... most of the time a newer version of the product VMware also upgraded to a newer version of VMware Tools, but it is not completely 1 on 1.

  > The only advice that I seem to be able to find is "install VMWare Tools".

  That's good advice, but it is not always necessary.

  Hope this helps,

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  Wil
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• Installation of the VMWare Tools on vSphere Client

  Can someone explain exactly how I'm supposed to install the "VMware tools" in the form of step by step.  I'm under vSphere 4.0 without the update 1.  Thanks in advance!

  Hello.

  See this section of the library online.  From there, choose the operating system you need and there are instructions step by step.

  Good luck!

• How to activate the shared folders in the VMware tools

  I'm running a Windows 2003 Server EE guest x 64 OS in a virtual machine hosted by ESXi 3.5 u4 build 199239. VMware tools have been updated to the latest version for this build ESX.  In the VMware Tools Properties GUI the shared folders tab says "shared folders are currently disabled on the host computer.  Please see VMware documentation to find out how to activate it. "I searched all the VMware Documentation and have not found the answer to this question.

  Also, when folders are enabled it is my understanding that an addition is made to the guest OS network providers.  What is the impact of the network provider of shared folders moving further towards the bottom of the list of purchase orders (network connections, advanced, advanced settings, purchase order).

  As far as I KNOW, this is not possible if it running ESX (i)

  KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1317 tire

  The shared folders functionality is not supported by the ESX Server or GSX server, but is enabled when you install VMware Tools with the complete option. The feature is not enabled when you install VMware Tools with the typical option in respect of these products.