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• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise R2 VMware tools installation - "device installation was prevented by a strategy."

  P2V'ed a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Server using the stand-alone converter. Converted OK, can launch the machine in 10 Workstation, log with the ID of the administrator, but no network adapter or mouse. Several web search performance of the possible solutions for this - change the local security policy to everyone, the services to disable Ctrl-M - they have not worked with me. After several uninstall, re-installation of VMware tools (manually via the keyboard navigation for the update of the operating system host by mapping shared folders), now when the machine starts I see in the system, try "device installation was prevented by a policy." Do not see anything particularly related to, with this verbiage, at the request of Windows and security logs events. In addition, the physical machine has been sent, is no longer available unfortunately, but I think that it is just config and can be corrected.

  Any help appreciated in advance.

  1. Change the strategy of Local computer, computer, Configuration models of administration, system, Device Installation Restrictions of Installation of device to ' not configured.'
  2. Delete all the USB unknown devices in Device Manager, then do a search for the hardware changes.

  Both of the above have been made manually via the keyboard navigation, but analysis of changes of material made me my mouse back and let me launch the installation of VMware tools.

  Woot!

• Installation of the VMware Tools on the device of 5.2 VM ACS

  A quick glance reveals no instruction on how to do this, anyone know of documentation out there about how to insall VMware tools on the VM?

  Hi Chris,

  Unfortunately, VMware tools can be installed on ACS 5.x. developers are already aware of the situation and there is a request for feature improvement.

  CSCtg50048    Integrate VMWare tools at ACS 5

  Symptom:

  Support for VMWare Tools is not present on 5 ACS.

  Conditions:

  This affects 5 ACS.

  Workaround solution:

  None.

  No ETA for the development. The next version of the ACS will be ready in summer of this year, please search around that time.

  Rgds, jousset

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• Catch 22 tries to install VMware Tools

  I created a Windows 7 VM from a physical PC. I 'play' on a Player 10 Windows via VMware Workstation 12 host, connect to the guest and then click on the "Install tools" button in the player. I see this error message:

  "The virtual machine must have a virtual CD/DVD device to install VMware Tools."

  OK, so I turned off the guest who also ends the player, rerun the player, select the virtual machine and click on "Edit virtual machine settings". On the Hardware tab, I click on the Add button, select "reader of CD/DVD", click Next, select the "use ISO image" radio button (because I guess that's what the error message means by "virtual CD/DVD"), and then click Next, and then I get invited to an ISO image. And that's the Catch 22 - the error message indicates that the player has just need a virtual device, not an ISO, but when I try to add a virtual device, the player wants an ISO.

  How to break this vicious circle and install VMware Tools?

  I thought about it myself the answer to a question on the superuser. Here are the steps:

  1. Stop the virtual machine
  2. Run the drive and select the virtual machine
  3. Click on "Edit virtual machine settings".
  4. Click on "Add..." "in the Hardware tab
  5. Select "CD/DVD Drive", and then click Next
  6. Select the "use ISO image" radio button and click Next
  7. Navigate to C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\VMware drive and double-click windows.iso
  8. Uncheck the box "Connect to light" (probably any) and click on finish
  9. Click OK
  10. Click on "Play virtual machine."
  11. Log on to the virtual computer
  12. Click installation tools
  13. Follow the instructions in the installer

• Update the vmWare tools in VoP via vCenter

  I'm still new to this community and I hope I'll catch up here soon, but I'm not sure of the update process the vmtools on the device of VoP. I know once I spunt'sand he upwards and configured the IP etc, the vCenter as the tools were obsolete. Tonight is our night of patch management and we'd get VoP abreast, as far as tools go. What is the process to get this done? Do I just shoot vCenter or are there steps to perform on the server of VoP so.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Hi David,

  You can update VMWare Tools on the device in the same way as you would for any virtual machine of OpenSUSE Linux.  This can be done manually from the console if vCenter may not withdraw that, alone.

  I hope this helps!

• VMWare tools really necessary?

  Hello community,

  I got a very generic question about VMWare tools. I have a few Ubuntu LTS server only without X 14.04 deployed machines. I don't require any USB. I still need to install VMWare tools? Who helps me somehow outside the support of USB?

  not technically. He could buy access you to device drivers, nic, etc. It also allows you to access directly to the host Service to run with VMrun commands. But no, it is not necessary.

• 8.0.2 - > 8.1.0 vmware tools (win64) usb FTDI driver problem

  I'm Win10x64 running on latest El Capitan.  When I upgraded from fusion 8.0.2 to 8.1.0, I could no longer communicate with all FTDI device that I plugged in USB.  There are some devices that I have with FTDI chips create COM serial ports (debugger microcontroller pods, etc.).

  To go back, I uninstalled vmware tools and downgraded fusion to 8.0.2 and reinstalled the previous vmware tools and everything works well.  Something seems to have changed in 8.1.0 that breaks it.

  Yes, it is a known issue in the merger 8.1 and should be fixed in the next version of the patch. In the meantime, version 8.0.2.

• Cannot install VMware Tools.

  Hello

  my client have esx1 and esx2 - vSphere vCenter device 6.0 and 6.0 knots. When I try to install VMware tools on Windows Server vm = error:

  VIX 21001 = error code

  Cannot install VMware Tools. An error occurred trying to access the image file ' / usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso ' to install VMware Tools: 2 (no such file or directory). 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

  When I connect to esx1 via Putty and check ' usr/lib/vmware /-the 'isoimages' folder missing.»

  Please, what is faster solution?

  CZ THX

  Hello

  problem solved...

  I don't know why, but on esx1 - Local Direct USB access - declined, I restarted esx1 and now works perfectly

  so, I lost my network settings

  THX

  Tom

• How upgrade VMware tools Web Client 5.5

  Hi all

  I was wondering how upgrade you VMware tools on a virtual machine in the web client 5.5 without using tools to upgrade to the next option reboot inside the virtual machine.  When you go into the VM options is grayed out just

  

  Let me know,

  Thank you

  • The Web Client vSphere incorrectly invites you to update the VMware Tools, even in the last version.
  • A yellow banner will appear in the summary tab for the virtual machine with the message:

    VMware Tools is obsolete on this virtual machine.

  • The Web Client vSphere may or may not give you the option to update the VMware Tools.
  • When you try to update the virtual machine of VMware Tools reports the installed version is earlier than the version currently running.
  • In the view hosts and Clusters of the army of ESXi, related objects , the affected virtual machine tab shows the version of VMware Tools is common.
  • Tab summary of the view models and virtual computers for the affected virtual machine, VMware Tools version is listed as current.

  Cause

  When VMware Tools is installed in a virtual machine and the virtual machine is then migrated to a host older ESXi, vSphere Web Client correctly detects that the version of VMware Tools installed is equal to or greater than the version provided by the ESXi host where the virtual machine resides. However, the yellow banner is designed to match the version of VMware Tools exact provided by the host against the virtual machine.

  Resolution

  This question is only cosmetic.

  If the State of VMware Tools is listed as a current, you can ignore this message

• VMware Tools not settled in XP Pro Sp3 invited

  I think that VMware tools is supposed to install drivers for these (SCSI), which are of unknown devices in my device manager and Vga adapter but it crashes in normal and safe mode on my xp after manual installation running.  Have also tried to folder on the drive.

  Anyway to get these installed and get VMware tools running?

  Also MY XP hangs after logging in normal mode and in safe mode I get error blue screen after awhile 0X0000008E and similar.

  Yes I am the administrator also - I'm using the official XP administrator account (account first when it was setup) but still the problem.  There maybe some group policy or the registry thing/permissions setting (I have set permissions as approved for the application installer and still issue).  Don't know what else to try.  In any case thanks for trying to help.  Let me know if you think of something else.

  Post edited by: Astrogirl
  Hi I think that question could have been set by the combination of responses - I tried to configure the virtual machine through my windows 8.1 host VMWare converter standalone 5.5.1 - selection only add Vmware Tools (later) and remove restore points and after responsible for this virtual machine without register suspended or system crash or wedging.  VMware tools of the 6 worm drive was also loading and installation had to find setup.exe and run it from ISO loaded manually (when selected for the installation of the player window - Player - manage - install Vmware Tools).  However obtained related permissions errors and install the first roll back (see attached screenshots).  Then I loaded the regedit and set of local service, service network and administrator name real current user in its entirety with all permissions to access these key: HKLM system services and under software - perflib under Microsoft - Windows NT - current worm (although the latter do not know if it had to) - missed me the perflib key being added if it based on another doc help on the internet.
  Then restart may have helped also but Vmware tools installed without error and in Device Manager I also removed any? and unknown devices, but my SCSI and VGA drivers now loading properly.

  Thank you and thank all those who contributed to this issue - so seems a problem now solved.  Your answers have helped keep research regarding permissions and versions of vmware and reminded me to try to reconfigure etc. have been so helpful.  I hope that these positions help others facing similar problems.

• Another debutant fails to install vmware-tools

  I know that the process is supposed to be automated, fool-proof and easy to use, but my newly installed with reader

  Comments Debian Linux 7 won't install vmware-tools V9.6.2, which he keeps trying to download.

  After about 3 seconds, I crash with the client error internal error 3033 CD.

  I cobbled together something together in a previous version--tools and have the adjustable screen resolution, but other parts

  de./VMware-install.pl were not happy - in particular the so-called gcc.

  A more frustrating experience. I have gone through documentation and sources but cannot determine what .iso file to download

  to get the process on track.

  Hello

  After checking the photo, I recommend you run this command:

  apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

  Then, try reinstalling vmware tools

• 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.

• 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.

• VMware tools date

  Hello

  I 624 VM in my largest cluster virtual machine part is showing "vmware tools obsolete.

  is it possible to get how meany are update how meany are date can generate the report

  If I want to update the VMware tools what is the best practice to do... .on one can take a lot of time

  There are several ways you can find vmware date tools.

  (1) Using vSphere Client, select Data Center/cluster and select VM Filter tab with the status of the VM name and Vmware tools

  (2) using the RVtools (RVTools - homepage)

  (3) using the Power of CLI (Get - VM |) Select name, Version, ToolsVersion, ToolsVersionStatus)

  You can PowerCLI update without restart vmware tools

  Get - VM | Update-tools - NoReboot

  Check this if you want to use inside VM CSV file https://communities.vmware.com/blogs/amitrajit/2013/10/22/update-vmware-tools-without-reboot