Cannot install vmware tools

I ejected the Windows ISO in the hopes it would free the drive and let me install the tools. After a crushing defeat, I began searching for a new solution on the VMware forums. They were experiencing the exact same issue as I was. After combing through replies, I managed to figure out the solution to my problem. The option to install VMware tools should no longer be grayed out. Click on it to begin the VMware installation.

You will also see a new tab at the bottom of the screen prompting you to install the tools. Hopefully, this helped you fix your installation just as it did for me. Good to find a non-enterprise user of VMware. Several years ago I considered getting up to speed on it but VMware reportedly laid off the development staff of Workstation or Player, or whatever they call it this week :.

Say, what do they call it now and what version is it? Is the free version hard to find and are there any significant limitations compared to Virtualbox or KVM? TIA, Mike. I prefer VirtualBox simply because it works well with any distro. Yet, when it works and one does whatever is necessary, I find VMware to have a more polished look and feel. These days the most important and most valuable product of Oracle is VirtualBox! Thank you. This article helped me. Then the option to install VMware Tools was not grey!

Got my VMware tools installed and was then able to use the features such as sharing a drive with my VM. Thanks for the tip of adding a CD drive. I never realized this before because all my other VM hosts had CD drives. May cause an issue with the IDE device configured as a slave. Thank you very much! Much appreciated! I have an OS X Mavericks Unity is greyed out. This has, so far, defeated VMware support. Thanks a lot! And I struggled a lot for accessing shared drive inside guest.

I had the same problem in Vmware Workstation pro The guest os being windows 7 x32 bit. Tried all the above methods. They didnot work. Then after much research found this page:. Name: VMware-Tools-windows The vmware tools exe was seen inside the guest os and installation was as usual.

I think it was one such attempt. Worst of all it worked. Thank you very much. Thanks sir, I was worried. I must say that I think that the effort required to install is ridiculous. I could not find any decent information on the web explaining how to install the tools the method is completely obscure , or even how to verify they were installed. This is by fare the worst thing about VMWare. Okay so on mac I was trying to create a win 7 vm machine using vmware fusion on MacOS obviously.

I had found out the removal of the CD allright to kick out the windows but that didnt help. I work with Windows 10 and Ubuntu VMs. I flip between them on a Mac Pro. On boot, it will detect Windows. Thank you so much for this. It worked perfectly. I used your method and when I restarted Player, I was able to easily install Tools.

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These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. In our previous articles, we installed vSphere ESXi 6. And you can find our other ESXi articles from the links below. After you have set up the VM, run it and click Actions.

Click the Install button to start the VM Tools setup for the virtual machine running in the server. In this article, we have reviewed how to setup the virtual machine software for any VM running vSphere 6. Thanks for following us!