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I’ve had cause to look for the VMware Tools download a couple of times recently, so thought a quick post was in order to cover where you can download all the VMware Tools ISO images from.
VMware Tools should be installed in all VMs running on the ESXi host for increasing VM performance. VM tools improves the administration of VM’s guest OS, helping ensure error-free user interactions. Normally VMware Tools (vmtools) will be installed using the vSphere client, or in bulk using Update Manager, however there are occasions where you may want to download a copy of the ISO. You may want to install an older version of VMtools, or perhaps to look at installing VMtools using a different deployment tool such as SCCM.
How to Download VMware Tools
VMware make all the current and past versions of VMware tools available here. When you go to that URL you will see a page listing current and previous ESXi builds:
Clicking on a directory will show you the tools packages available:
As shown above, there are directories for each supported Guest OS, in which you can find the .iso file to download.
If you want to match up which VMtools version relates to which ESXi build number you can check that out on this page, which lists those mappings:
VMtools Release Notes and Product Documentation
You can find all the release notes and documentation for all the vm tools releases here.
Open VM Tools Download
open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of virtual machines. There is more information on open vm tools and download links here.
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.
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:
Download Vmware Tools Iso
Login as root user:
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
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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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