Installing VMware Tools is part of the process of creating a new virtual machine, and upgrading VMware Tools is part of the process of keeping your virtual machine up to current standards. Although your guest operating systems can run without VMware Tools, many VMware features are not available until you install VMware Tools. When you install VMware Tools, the utilities in the suite enhance the performance of the guest operating system in your virtual machine and improve the management of your virtual machines.

For information about creating virtual machines, see the documentation for the applicable VMware product.

The installers for VMware Tools are ISO image files. The CD-ROM in your guest operating system detects the ISO image file. Each type of guest operating system, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, has an ISO image file. When you select the command to install or upgrade VMware Tools, the virtual machine’s first virtual CD-ROM disk drive temporarily connects to the VMware Tools ISO file for your guest operating system.

Wenn Sie VMware Fusion, Workstation Player oder Workstation Pro verwenden, können Sie die Funktion Windows Easy Install oder Linux Easy Install verwenden, um VMware Tools sofort nach der Installation des Betriebssystems zu installieren.

Wenn Sie VMware Fusion, Workstation Player oder Workstation Pro verwenden, sind die aktuellen Versionen der ISO-Dateien auf einer VMware-Website gespeichert. Wenn Sie den Installations- oder Upgrade-Befehl für VMware Tools verwenden, wird ermittelt, ob die aktuelle Version der ISO-Datei für das Betriebssystem vom VMware-Produkt heruntergeladen wurde. Wenn die aktuelle Version nicht heruntergeladen wurde oder wenn noch keine ISO-Datei für VMware Tools für dieses Betriebssystem heruntergeladen wurde, werden Sie aufgefordert, die Datei herunterzuladen.

  • VMware Tools installer from windows.iso automatically detects the windows version. It does not proceed with the installation on guest operating systems earlier than Windows Vista.
  • VMware Tools installer from winPreVista.iso does not proceed with the installation on Windows Vista and later.
  • VMware Tools installer from linux.iso does not proceed with installation on Linux guest operating system versions earlier than RHEL5, SLES 11, Ubuntu 10.04, and other Linux distributions with glibc version earlier than 2.5.
  • VMware Tools installer from darwinPre15.iso does not proceed with installation on MAC OS X guest operating systems versions 10.11 or later.
  • VMware Tools installer from darwin.iso does not proceed with installation on MAC OS X guest operating systems versions earlier than 10.11.
Hinweis: On ESXi hosts, for guest operating systems that do not have the necessary VMware Tools ISOs bundled, users must set up the ProductLockerLocation variable on all the VMware Tools ISO images to manage VMware Tools on these guests. Attempts to upgrade or install without setting up the ProductLockerLocation variable fails with missing ISO error. For more information, see the VMware Knowledge base article at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2129825.
Hinweis: AppDefense is not supported for VMware Tools 12.0.0 and later versions.

The installation procedure varies, depending on the operating system. For information about installing or upgrading VMware Tools on your guest operating systems, see the topic about upgrading virtual machines in the Virtual Machine Administration Guide. For general instructions about installing VMware Tools, see the VMware Knowledge base article http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014294.

Hinweis: If the VMware Tools ISO file for the guest operating system is not available with the product, you are prompted to download the file from https://packages-prod.broadcom.com/tools/frozen/. Alternatively, on the host, from the menu bar, select Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools. You will get a link to download the specific VMware Tools ISO file.