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Great. &nbsp;Version 4 is already running, so I'll just leave it at that.<br />
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Thanks!
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Hi,<br />
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I am running a legacy Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 inside VMware ESXi 6 Upd. 2. &nbsp;The VM was copied from ESXi 4 and it is running VMware tools 4.0.0.<br />
Tools-Update from vSphere-Client does not work. &nbsp;The installer crashes before it starts to ask any questions or to do anything.<br />
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Is the current version of VMware tools supported for Windows 2000? &nbsp;Which is the recommended version von VMware tools for such an old guest?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Ralph
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Hi,

I am running a legacy Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 inside VMware ESXi 6 Upd. 2.  The VM was copied from ESXi 4 and it is running VMware tools 4.0.0.
Tools-Update from vSphere-Client does not work.  The installer crashes before it starts to ask any questions or to do anything.

Is the current version of VMware tools supported for Windows 2000?  Which is the recommended version von VMware tools for such an old guest?

Thanks,
Ralph

VMware:  Latest Tools version for Windows 2000 Guest

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.

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Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.