The legacy method can be useful when you need to install VMware Tools on older versions of Linux.
' C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation' is the default location on Windows.ISO images for different guest operating systems are stored in the following locations: ISO images are stored in the installation directory of VMware Workstation on Windows. If ISO images with VMware Tools are missing on the machine running a VMware hypervisor, you can download the necessary ISO image with VMware Tools from VMware’s web site. In order to install VMware Tools on Linux, perform the following actions.ġ. Insert the virtual DVD image that contains the VMware Tools installer. If your VM is running on VMware ESXi managed by vCenter, open VMware HTML5 vSphere Client, and select your VM in Host and Clusters. If VMware Tools are not installed on that VM, you can see a notification and a clickable button Install VMware Tools. You can also start the VMware Tools installation manually by clicking Actions > Guest OS > Install VMware Tools (see the screenshot below).Īfter that, VMware vSphere Client notifies you that a VM with a guest OS must be running in order to mount the ISO image and install VMware Tools on the guest OS.
