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You will have to drill down much deeper to find it. You will have to drill down yet another path to find it. Why nobody ever told me that before, I don’t know. But that’s where it is buried! You’d think there might be a “quick link” to VMWare Tools on your home page, or maybe on the All Downloads page, or maybe even on the Workstation Player page.

But no. And a few items down in the list of items for this category is a line item titled “VMWare vSphere”. This is the “front door” to downloading VMWare Tools.

Click on that right-arrow to change it into a down-arrow which expands the line item to show all available versions of VMWare Tools that you can download beginning with the most recent. On the first line is the latest version 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. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann.

It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers. Search for:. How to install VMWare tools if the option is grayed out. Learn how to install VMWare tools if the option is grayed out. The fix is simple and should take no more than a few minutes. Related content Use the Windows Task Manager to find power leeching processes quickly. How to turn off the News and Interests feature of Windows How to turn off Text Predictions in Word and Outlook.

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Comments mikef said on November 8, at pm. VioletMoon said on November 9, at pm. Windows Hyper-V works fine. Anonymous said on January 21, at pm. Why not just use VirtualBox instead? Ascar said on November 10, at pm. Haresh said on January 6, at pm. Anonymous said on January 9, at am. Thank you so much. This got me out of the few hours rant of frustration. Anonymous said on January 15, at am. Anonymous said on January 22, at am. Anonymous said on January 22, at pm. Anonymous said on January 30, at am.

Anonymous said on November 29, at pm. Anonymous said on February 10, at pm. Thank you so much — really helped me out of a problem. Daniel said on February 16, at pm. Anonymous said on March 6, at pm. Bartek said on March 24, at pm. Thank, Ten seconds to find your tips and five sends to fix my issue. Anonymous said on April 4, at pm. Bruno said on April 6, at pm.

Tigs said on April 6, at pm. It saved me so much time instead of reinstalling the entire VM. Anonymous said on April 10, at am. Removing the floppy disk did it for me, thanks! BDR said on April 16, at am. Anonymous said on April 25, at pm.

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So the yellow exclamation mark was genuinely justified in alerting me to the need to update my currently installed For anybody else who might ever be asking these same questions in the future, here is the roadmap to victory. Click on this All Downloads link to get the page providing download links for all VMWare products grouped into categories. You will have to drill down much deeper to find it. You will have to drill down yet another path to find it.

Why nobody ever told me that before, I don’t know. But that’s where it is buried! You’d think there might be a “quick link” to VMWare Tools on your home page, or maybe on the All Downloads page, or maybe even on the Workstation Player page. But no. And a few items down in the list of items for this category is a line item titled “VMWare vSphere”. One of the important features that these tools add is the ability to copy data from the virtual machine to the host operating system or vice-versa.

That’s how I actually came to know that the tools weren’t installed, it didn’t let me move some folders from my main Windows 10 to the VM version. I knew that I had chosen the option to download VMWare tools when creating the virtual machine. I even remember the message log displaying the notification that the tools had been downloaded. Hoping to find a fix, I began to look around and came across official documentation on VMWare’s support portal.

None of this worked. This is when I searched the VMWare forums and found the solution on this thread. Repeat the above step to remove the Floppy Drive. Optional, but this is what fixed it for me. Courtesy: AskUbuntu forums. Previously, it had the Windows ISO selected. The option should no longer be greyed out.

Click on it to install the VMWare Tools. You will also see a new tab at the bottom of the screen prompting you to install the tools. 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. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers.

Search for:. How to install VMWare tools if the option is grayed out. Learn how to install VMWare tools if the option is grayed out. The fix is simple and should take no more than a few minutes. Related content Use the Windows Task Manager to find power leeching processes quickly. How to turn off the News and Interests feature of Windows How to turn off Text Predictions in Word and Outlook. Create your own SDelete shortcut for secure file deletion.

How to sum numbers in LibreOffice Calc automatically. Comments mikef said on November 8, at pm. VioletMoon said on November 9, at pm.

Windows Hyper-V works fine. Anonymous said on January 21, at pm. Why not just use VirtualBox instead? Ascar said on November 10, at pm. Haresh said on January 6, at pm. Anonymous said on January 9, at am.

Thank you so much. This got me out of the few hours rant of frustration. Anonymous said on January 15, at am. Anonymous said on January 22, at am.