![]() ![]() I'm sure there is a KB somewhere that goes over the process and the details. Hello, when you see this option grayed out thats means sometimes that you dont have a virtual Optique drive in your Vmware guest, so try to make one from menu VM->settings->ADD. I usually download and update manually and when I do I pull down the entire package. Well since the tools install is dorked up it's going to be faster to rebuild the VM than to actually answer yes to every overwrite prompt.Īfter pondering for a while I wonder if an in place upgrade leaves out the tools portion so that the upgrade will run a bit faster. So if anyone else runs into the greyed "Downloading VMWare Tools" reboot the VM and install form the prompt at the bottom. If I ran from the prompt at the bottom of my screen it works. That’s because the tools installation are managed by the guest’s package. The installation status of open-vm-tools is not reflected in the Fusion GUI. The legacy VMware Tools for Linux are maintained only for older Linux distributions that don’t support open-vm-tools. Yeah this was weird behavior, I tried upgrading tools from the menu which didn't work.twice. VMware Tar Tool for Linux virtual machine is feature-frozen at version 10.3.10, so the tar tools (linux.iso) included in Workstation Player is 10.3.10 and will not be updated. Open-vm-tools are recommended by VMware for in-guest tools on Linux. Double-click My Computer (or Computer in Windows Vista, 7 and 8). Click on VM in the menu bar (or right-click the virtual machine), then choose Install VMware Tools or Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. ![]() Killed the upgrade process and tried again that did not change the status of Downloading VMWareTools. This worked for me on VMWare Fusion 10.1.1 running on Win10 within Mac: To start the installation manually: Note: If the Virtual Machine menu option reads Cancel VMware Tools Installation and the installer does not start, perform these steps. ![]() Now whether or not that happens because that other process cannot be stopped is a very distinct possibility. So I tried pulling in the files to manually run an upgrade from a CLI on Ubuntu and that just hangs. I may have to fish around for the tools and pull them in manually rather than wait on the process. In the past this process rarely broke, but at least I had control over what happened. This appears to be a new thing since i upgraded to 10.0.2 build-1744117. Fix Install VMware Tools Option Grayed Outvmware vmwatch the complete video to get a better result.Read our Blogs and keep learning. No status and no way of knowing if there is an issue with the process. Where is it downloading the tools from host or web? Why can I not stop the process? I also wonder how this behaves with a Linux guest as I am pretty sure the firewall is up and might be blocking this. The greying out and download is not a step in the right direction. I prefer the old way of dealing with this where you could cancel an install and try again. ![]()
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