The guest OS must be running in order to install VMware Tools.2. If the virtual machine is turned off, power it on. VMware Tools is automatically installed when the Easy Install option is used for Windows installation, but if you didn’t use this option, you will need to install VMware Tools manually. Makimba, cniggeler and zogthegreat reacted to this VMware strongly recommends installing VMware Tools in a virtual machine running Windows OS. darwinPre15.iso is located in the 'payload' folder darwin.iso is located in the 'payload' folder Instructions for extracting darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso

The various VMware Tools downloads are located under the packages folder for each version upto and including 11.1.0. Please note: In the latest VMwareGfx.kext from Fusion 8.5.5 onwards VMware have discontinued the 2D-Acceleration code, and graphics performance is better now, thanks to Zenith432 for the update.

If you prefer to download the 'core' tar file and extract the ISO's they are located in the following directory in the tar file:Ĭom. Fusion.appContentsLibraryisoimages However, I have extracted the darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso from the 'core' and uploaded to this thread. It is not possible to download the .tar due to upload limits. VMware are no longer including the ISO images as separate 'packages' in the CDS respository as of Fusion 11.5.0, instead the ISO images are included as part of the 'core' download which is 522 MB. This is the current version of VMware Tools for OS X / macOS from the VMware CDS repository for Fusion 11.5.0 VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests operating systems. From here, we will move into install VMware Tools on macOS Big Sur. The VMware Tools provides a set of features, things and improvements that includes but are not limited to, screen resolution, sound, network, graphics, speed, drag, and drop more.

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