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Thank you!! Do I download and install it on my host laptop or on each VM that I have inside the vmware workstation?
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Thank you!! Do I download and install it on my host laptop or on each VM that I have inside the vmware workstation?

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You need to install VMware Tools on ALL your VMs. e.g. the Guest VMs, not the host OS.<br />
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see my EE Articles, and have a read what VMware Tools does<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11873.html" rel="ugc">Part 8: HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Windows on a VMware Windows virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_12369.html" rel="ugc">Part 9: HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Linux on a VMware Linux virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server</a>
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You need to install VMware Tools on ALL your VMs. e.g. the Guest VMs, not the host OS.

see my EE Articles, and have a read what VMware Tools does

Part 8: HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Windows on a VMware Windows virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11873.html]

Part 9: HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Linux on a VMware Linux virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_12369.html]

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Thank you so much for the link!! It worked!
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Thank you so much for the link!! It worked!

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Hello,<br />
I am getting this error below. I am running VMWare workstation 11.<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/07_w30/924880/vmwareerror.jpg" target="_blank" title="virtual (34 KB)"><img alt="virtual" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/07_w30/800_924880/vmwareerror.jpg" /></a><br />
If you do not see VMWARe Tools installing, press Windows logo key + R HTen, enter D:\setup where D: is your CD-ROM<br />
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I dont have anything on my D: drive. Where do I download the VMware tools. I didn't find it on vmware website. Thank you very much!
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vmwareerror.jpg

Hello,
I am getting this error below. I am running VMWare workstation 11.



If you do not see VMWARe Tools installing, press Windows logo key + R HTen, enter D:\setup where D: is your CD-ROM

I dont have anything on my D: drive. Where do I download the VMware tools. I didn't find it on vmware website. Thank you very much!

If you do not see VMWARe Tools installing, press Windows logo key + R HTen, enter D:\setup where D: is your CD-ROM

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.