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<div></div><div></div><div>Because I'm required to install windows updates on 2012 before having vmware tools be able to update, I am blocked from using the vmware tools network driver to install windows updates. Using the vm is extremely cumbersome. This means the whole process takes over an hour.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>vmware tools download windows server 2008 r2</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD: https://t.co/7FphdF1Ihl </div><div></div><div></div><div>This is a REALLY bad decision to not make vmware tools contain the Visual C++ executables. I realize there may be some newer features in tools that take advantage of advanced windows features, but a KEY point of vmware is being able to support older operating systems on new hardware.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Step 3:</div><div></div><div> Login to your windows server core.</div><div></div><div> Change the directory from C to D or E where VMware tools is mounted.</div><div></div><div> You can simply try first with D directory & than later go ahead.</div><div></div><div> Because default is the D directory.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I don't think so, the snapshot works with VMware tools version 9354 e doens not works with version 10272...Other think you cannot create snapshot from vmware console, for me it can be a vmware problem, probably with vmware tools version. have you opportunity to check these articles</div><div></div><div></div><div>I actually got it figured out. I never saw the answer anywhere, but after some trial and error, I found that it is working correctly, but you have to wait for Windows to setup and vmware tools to install. Also, you need to make sure vmware tools gets installed in the Specialize pass of the autounattend. That way it will reboot before doing the other stuff. Once it reboots after vmware tools, it gets an IP and you will find the packer process starts moving again.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>There are many topics related to the windows/winrm/waiting for ip problem(s). Most of the time the machines had to be rebooted (typical Windows problem solving) one or two times for getting vmware tools/ winrm up and running.</div><div></div><div></div><div>But the vmware-hgfsmounter function is not available using the official vmware-tools from VMware that ships with the current VMware player. Therefore, as the currently accepted answer suggests, running the vmware-config-tools.pl -d fixes the problem.</div><div></div><div></div><div>(applies to Mac VMware Fusion and Ubuntu file sharing)When you are asked in vmware-config-tools.pl about whether you want HGFS, say yes! (The default is 'no' and you may have skipped over it when hitting enter). This should give you /mnt/hgfs after the tools are installed.</div><div></div><div></div><div>A workaround for this problem is to edit 'inode.c' and change the line '888' to remove 'compat_truncate' function call (that is responsible for this problem on kernels 3.8.x). This file is inside 'vmware-tools-distrib', so you need to perform the following steps:</div><div></div><div></div><div>Hard to say what you are doing wrong without more details as I have not had these issues. We have used with with Windows server 2012, 2016 and Windows 10 with the Windows update and no issues. For Linux I just install the tools from the CD and restart as the tool instructs, but that has been from both debian and ubuntu, I have not tested it with other versions but there are a lot of large scale production installs being discussed in their forums -ng.org/forum/</div><div></div><div></div><div>Windows however has proven to be a challenge lately. Normally my process was turn on Windows update in XOA, check for updates and bam there they were citrix tools downloading. I do have an older windows 7 machine (labeled UPI) that was one of the first to work with the XOA way of applying tools.</div><div></div><div></div><div>RVTools is a Windows .NET (4.6.2 or higher) application which uses VMware vSphere Management SDK 8.0 and CIS REST API to display information about your virtual environments. Interacting with VirtualCenter 5.x, ESX Server 5.x, VirtualCenter 6.x, ESX Server 6.x, VirtualCenter 7.0, ESX server 7.0, VirtualCenter 8.0 and ESX server 8.0. 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In the left bottom corner of the window, click the lock to make changes.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The module supports both installing the latest version from packages.vmware.com and installing any version you have downloaded yourself and made available (either on the Puppet server or somewhere else on the network).</div><div></div><div></div><div>For a number of years, Stratus has supported the earlier GSX Server hypervisor from VMware, which ran atop Windows or Linux and provided a hypervisor environment in which Linux, Windows, or other operating systems could be loaded. The host operating system in a GSX Server setup was a single point of failure in a standalone server - not much of an issue in an ftServer setup. More importantly, the VMotion virtual machine migration and other features like VirtualSMP (allowing a virtual machine to span many CPU cores or sockets) were not available with GSX Server. 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