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• Cannot install VMWare tools for linux

  Hello

  I use VMWare player 3.1.4.

  I have a machine, Ubunto 11.04 on which I'm trying to install VMWare tools.

  However, the download process always stops with an error: "not recognized update server data (4007). Try again later... »

  I tried to download from two PC different and two different networks.

  Any idea?

  Thank you

  Jonathan

  Try disabling the web Updater by going to Preferences > uncheck the "check the Web for updates at startup".

  You can uninstall and then install vmware player.

  You can also get the tools using Apt - get, instead of by the bias of the player interface. See this page:

  https://help.Ubuntu.com/community/VMware/tools

  ---------------------

  #install kernel headers so modules will work
  #needed this on a 10.04 guest running in a Fusion 3 host
  apt-get install linux-headers-virtual
  
  # install kernel modules
  apt-get install --no-install-recommends open-vm-dkms
  
  # EITHER: install tools for an xorg install
  apt-get install open-vm-tools
  # OR: a headless install
  apt-get install --no-install-recommends open-vm-tools
  

• Installing vmware tools in linux mint in vmware fusion 3 11?

  I would like to install Linux Mint as a guest in my Vmware Fusion 3, but my problem is to know how to install VMWare Tools for Linux Mint. I hope that there is a simple explanation how to do it.

  Thanks in advance

  I hope that there is a simple explanation how to do it.

  Simple is a relative term.

  Take a look at: VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > Search > type vmware tools, then select display all help topics and then select: installation or upgrading VMware Tools in a Machine virtual Linux

• VMware Tools for Mac on EsXi 5.5

  I'm trying to install VMware Tools on a Mac on my 5.5 EsXi box.  I get the following error:

  VMWare Tools upgrade error

  Call 'VirtualMachine.MountToolsInstaller' for the 'host name' object on EsXi host failed.

  VIX 21003 = error code

  Anyone where I can download Vmware Tools for mac on an EsXi 5.5 box?  Perform a google search, I am led to this page to download VMware Tools:

  Index of /45848/tools/esx/5.0

  However, this site lists only on Windows and Linux.  I do not see any version of Vmware Tools Mac.

  Nevermind, I was able to get rid of the error message by removing my cd player.  Its strange that after mounting will cause this error.  Also its strange that there isn't any downloadable version online.  But no matter I got it solved.

• How can install vmware tools on Linux

  Please provide details for the installation of the VMware tools on Linux (RHEL4.6)

  Please take a look at this VMware KB: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/340

  Basically you can right click on the VM and start the VMware Tools installation or extract the number of TURNS of linux.iso file and simply install the package as you would with the standard speed of RHEL. You can find more details and instructions in the above KB

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  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  Twitter: @lamw

  repository scripts vGhetto

  Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)

  Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl

  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  150 VMware developer

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• 6u2 ESXi host nested on VMware Workstation for Linux referee v12

  Hello all, I have

  I have a lab environment virtual running in VMware Workstation for Linux v12, and my ESXi hosts do not work correctly on one of the virtual networks. All my troubleshooting suggests a problem with nested ESXi hosts that may be a bug, but I want to assure you that I did everything properly first. That's why I post here with the hope that if I made a mistake that maybe someone else can point out he me.

  Physical system

  8 core Intel Xeon 2.1 GHz CPU

  128 GB of RAM

  OS - kernel Linux 64 - bit w/3.19.0-32-generic Linux Mint 17.3 (fully updated from this announcement)

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro - 12.1.1. Build-3770994 (fully updated from this announcement)

  Nested ESXi host VM

  ESXi v6.0.0 (Build 3825889, completely updated from this announcement)

  4 cards 'physical' (only 3 used for now)

  -all use the e1000 NIC hardware virtual, but also tried vmxnet3 NIC with no difference

  -vSwitch0 use vmnic0 & 1 vmnet16 of virtual network in a pair of active / standby

  -vSwitch1 uses vmnic2 on network virtual vmnet18

  -vmk0 used for management on vSwitch0 and vmk1 for iSCSI on vSwitch1

  -"Promiscuous" mode and forged passes enabled on all Port vSwitch groups (activating or turning off these features makes no difference)

  Test performed until now

  I checked that all the IP addresses and network masks used are correct.

  With the help of vmkping I ping other nodes on the network vmnet16 with success.

  With the help of vmkping I tried to ping the other nodes in the network vmnet18, but that has failed.

  I have depolyed other non - ESXi VMs on the vmnet18 network, and they are able to ping each other, but are unable to ping or ping by the ESXI host.

  I tried various material virtual NIC as mentioned before, but without changes in the results.

  I tried to use only local network instead of the vmnet18 guest network segments with no change in results.

  When I find out the status of the network adapters on the ESXi host through vCenter or host incorporated client vmnic0 & 1 time display network information, but vmnic2 shows no networks. Yet, I know that there is a network with different VM communicate on it. Moreover, I was able to get all of this work on a Windows system running 10 Workstation (this is the laptop that my employer gives me with).

  Having built nested ESXi labs on different platforms as well as physical environments in the past, I'm very confused as to why I can't get this special configuration to work. At this point my gut tells me that this is probably a bug any with the nested themselves ESXi hosts. Since I can get all this work on vmnet16 including the management of ESXi hosts and the VCSA that I use, I am sure that my vSwitch configuration is correct (other than the IP address space and vmnic configurations is bascially the same). Because I can get other virtual machines to communicate over the network vmnet18 I don't see how can be a VMware Workstation for the issue physical Linux host. Is there something obvious I'm missing here? I read on the ESXi hosts nested under VMware Workstation after having known problems and bugs with networking. If anyone else has experienced this?

  Thanks for any help others can provide!

  Kind regards

  Patrick

  Well, the problem is now resolved. The problem was what covelli was trying to explain, but I couldn't because the physical host network adapters being mentioned.

  The problem on the Linux host, but it was a problem of permissions with the virtual Ethernet adapters. The following article has the fix:
  With the help of Ethernet virtual cards in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux host (287) | VMware KB

  Even if I launched the workstation under the root user I have yet met this problem and which still makes no sense to me, but change the permissions solve the problem. I was not getting an error message on my Linux Mint and Ubuntu system, but when I tried on a second box of Linux Mint that I just got the error has been generated, and the error message was the above link it contains.

  So, here's what I learned:

  (1) the question has nothing to with a VMware Workstation definition that you can configure.

  (2) the question has nothing to do with a physical network card.
  (3) the question has nothing to do with any vmnic on the nested ESXi host.

  (4) apparently virtual Ethernet adapters are not the correct permissions when created.

  All you have to do to fix this is:

  (1) open a terminal.

  (2) run the command ' sudo chmod a + rw/dev/vmnet * "(don't forget to run this each time that you create a new virtual network).

  You can also create a group, as shown in the link above and simply give this group the correct permissions. Personally, I think it's easier to just give everyone the rw permission.

  I appreciate the help that others have offered. I did not understand what was asked for in previous answers because of the terms that have been used.

• VMware tools for windows 98

  I'm fighting for two hours just to find the @$ & #^! VMware tools for Windows 98.

  For admins:

  Is it so difficult to include a link and a line on the site somewhere?

  With so many questions posted here, you already know that you don't have to make it all work automated, so in many cases a manual alternative is the only option.

  After the installation of Windows 98, there was a message that Vmware tools OS installed but I still only 16 colors, 640 x 480 res and an answer that is worse than a slideshow, so I guess that no Vmware tools have been installed.

  I tried some of the ISO images here https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html but they are not accepted for the player or the operating system.

  So, Vmware tools option exists for Windows 98 or not?

  Hello

  you do not have the option:

  Player - manage?  (because theire you might normally before the installation process) to mount the iso,... and so on

  have you tried to mount the Iso local player manually? (not the source vmware Web)

  you have enough disk space?

  Best regards

  Max

• VMware Tools for Mac will not install bug.

  Hello I have a clean install of Mac OS x 10.9 I raise in a virtual machine but when I bring the VMware Tools installed, get an error:

  Cannot install VMware Tools on this disk.  VMware Tools requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.

  Screenshot attached.

  I've tried versions both 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 darwin.iso for VMware Fusion. but the same error.   I wonder what VMware is actually audit to determine the versions of operating system.   I have in the past summer success install the same software on the same computer, but I have tried to reinstall from scratch (more than once) and tried many changes of setting on both hosts and guests with no joy.   Anyone know how to fix?   

  Thank you.

  mapsurfer wrote: there was a facility of Mavericks I had done a ton of work on which to install VMware Tools, which makes me think there is some file touched along the way

  who was happy to install VMware tools...

  I'll tell you one last time...  When clean install OS X 10.9 Mavericks under VMware Fusion 6.0.2 VMware Tools are not automatically installed!

  In addition, it turns out that the "internal" or "removable" made no difference that I was able to move the vmdk from SATA, SCSI (appears inside the system) but that made no difference either but has been tested

  I have mentioned that the drive internal vs external because VMware Fusion before 6.0.2 has not created a good installer for OS X 10.9 Mavericks nor was it settled the case, and the fact that it was not properly installed may have been a contributing factor to the VMware Tools install problem not necessarily imply that the disk shows as external!

  I wonder if there is another way to install VMware Tools manually?  I can see the directory structure exposed within the darwin.iso but don't know if I can cp

  This straight out of the iso, but not being is not a Mac OSX expert... don't know if I can run alternate and no package installer idea what files are changed by install VMware Tools.

  Still confident enough, I can work around the issue of the installer.

  I just tested this on a clean build and with the help of pacifists opened the VMware Tools.pkg (Install VMware Tools.app/Contents/Resources/VMware Tools.pkg) in the bundle 'Install VMware Tools.app' on darwin.iso (VMware Tools for OS X) and "Selected files.pkg content" then clicked on install and check 'use administrator privileges '.  He basically just moved the files in places and then after that I restarted the computer virtual VMware Tools seem to work.  I tested VMware shared folders, copy & paste, drag & drop, and change the resolution of the screen... all seem to work fine, however it was simply intended as a test and not a recommended method to install VMware Tools and I don't know if it is essentially a complete installation.  I don't have the time now to analyze the two occurrences, one made appropriately and the other using pacifists to see if there is in fact no difference.

  I was also going to take the vmdk to another platform and see if any difference (doubt it will be)

  Any platform with not brand hardware Apple is a direct violation of the SLA products and may not be discussed in these forums!

• Is there an alternative to the Update Manager - download the latest VMWare Tools for Windows Server 2003

  Hello

  I am really struggling to find an alternative to the Update Manager to download the latest VMWare Tools for Windows (Server 2003)

  There must be a link of just download somewhere? I scoured VMWare.com nothing helps...

  I can find of the OSP for other platforms (SUSE, Ubuntu etc), but nothing for Windows! Why?

  Any help really appreciated!

  Kind regards

  Tony.

  So you are saying I need to download the latest version of ESX/vSphere and then extract the VM Tools of which rpm?

  It might be a way to get them, if you are unable to install the product.

  The version will say vSphere 4.0 be OK for ESXi 3.5 VMs?

  Yes

  André

• GUI for VMware Tools in Linux clients

  When I install VMware Tools in a Windows client, I have a GUI to manage VMware Tools.

  Are there any similar GUI for Linux guests?

  If so, how can I run it?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Simply call "/ usr/bin/vmware-toolbox" from your X terminal.

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

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• What happens in terms of performance, if I didn't install VMware tools on linux with NIC defined as VXNET3

  Hi Experts,

  I would like to understand the following:

  Currently, I have a server with 10 G interfaces (u1, ESXi 5.5) and I installed SUSE linux as a virtual machine with adapter NIC VXNET3, but I don't want to install VMware tools. According to the article, VMtools are needed for VXNET3

  VMware KB: Choose one network adapter for your virtual machine

  So my question is: what happens to the performance of the network on this machine? (Saw that it basically works but not sure of the performance).

  Another question: in which case we have a virtual machine, but we do not want to install VMtools on it, which is recommended for this virtual machine NIC adapter?

  Thank you

  ekhmahg

  so my question is, what is the performance impact of not installing the VMtools when using VXNIC?

  None. Even if you have installed VMware tools, your BONES would still use the supplied kernel vmxnet3 module unless force you the installation of the VMware Tools (-clobber-kernel-modules = vmxnet3).

  Overwrite the supplied OS module is not recommended and besides if you're updating your kernel on a regular basis, you'll probably a newer version or at least the version module even as provided by the VMware tools (unless you keep bleeding edge with your updates of ESXi).

  the second question: If we do not want to install VMtools at all, what is the best recommended NIC adapter?

  vmxnet3. As you do not need to install the VMware Tools since the kernel module is provided by every modern Linux already.

• Upgrade VMware Tools on Linux based virtual appliances

  I just updated a cluster of 5.1 to 5.5, some of the VMS are virtual appliances based on Linux (most of them on CentOS) which are fairly locked down (no easy access console) critical how's this for upgrade these types of virtual machines to the latest version of VMware Tools? I'm a little OCD and it bothers me that some of the VMS are VMware Tools reports that are "Stale" :-)

  Thank you.

  I know what you mean about the annoying notification bit... However, most of the providers WILL group and test vmtools as well as the Virtual Appliance that they release.

  The answer isn't vmtools upgrade, it has upgraded the Virtual Appliances.

  for example

  Installation of NetScaler virtual appliance on VMware ESX - Citrix eDocs

  You have a list of virtual appliances and you run versions?

  Chris

• VMware Tools for FreeBSD using Server 5

  Hello

  We run VMware Server 5 and I installed a RELEASE of FreeBSD 8.2 Guest 64-bit on the system.

  I'm trying to locate the installer of VMware for OS tools, but I can't find it anywhere.

  The vmware-tools cd that goes up is only for Linux and not * BSD.

  I have Google would be like crazy, but couldn't find anywhere to download the edition of FreeBSD.

  Could someone point me in the right direction?

  Thank you

  You have the Version/OS invited under change the settings from-> Options tab-> General Options on FreeBSD? If this isn't the case, that's maybe why you get bad VMware tools.

• VMWare Tools for Windows - download problems

  I'm new to this game and that you have installed Windows 2000 in my VMWare Player, who continues trying in vain to download "VMWareTools for Windows 2000 and later versions - version 8.4.5". "    I searched on Google and the site of VMWare to see if I can manually enter this Tools for Windows and stable it me but again once I have had no success: I can't find Tools for Windows 8.4.5 or any other version anyware.

  I'd appreciate some tips so that I can begin to familiarize themselves with virtualization.

  Thank you

  Martin

  To manually install VMware Tools on a Windows host download just unzip the archive and run the .exe which result and that will create the windows.iso file and will be available when you select install VMware Tools.

  On a Linux host unzip archive and then in a Terminal, for example, run the following command:

  sudo vmware-installer --install-component=vmware-tools-windows-8.4.5-324285.i386.component
  

  This opens the installer GUI and then you just follow the instructions.  When the windows.iso is available when you install VMware Tools

• Cannot install vmware tools for xp vm

  Player 3.1.3 on Ubuntu 10.10

  Installs a XP VM to this platform - formerly hosted by VMWare Server 1.x on XP also. It works! Installation of the Vmware tools just leads to the 'there was a problem updating a software component. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact your system administrator or the VMware Support. "So I... Help, please!

  By the way... German XP inside the VM!

  Herbert

  You must first extract the files in the archive, then use sudo in the command line in a Terminal.

  An example would be in a Terminal...

  sudo vmware-installer --install-component=vmware-tools-linux-8.4.4-301548.x86_64.component
  

  To display the GUI installer and then you just follow the instructions.

  

  For VMware Windows tools that you have downloaded the command line should be as follows.

  sudo vmware-installer --install-component=vmware-tools-windows-8.4.5-324285.i386.component