Vmware Tools Windows Server 2012 R2 Download !FREE!
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Step 3:
Login to your windows server core.
Change the directory from C to D or E where VMware tools is mounted.
You can simply try first with D directory & than later go ahead.
Because default is the D directory.
I haven't checked Event Viewer because I'm so darn new to Windows server I didn't think about it. Come from Unix/Linux background. I'll go check. Is there any place in particular that VMware tools would be located within Event Viewer?
I have a Windows 2008 R2 X64 server running on Vmware ESXi. Originally it was running on Hyper-V, but I have since converted the VHD to a VMDK and migrated to ESXi. I also installed VMware Tools. This server is our TeamCity continuous integration server, performing nightly builds of software packages that my company develops. Since the move, occasionally certain files that the build process should delete fail to delete due to "The file is in use by another process". We are trying to delete the files using the CMD del command. Sometimes it works, others not. I fired up process monitor with the path of the directory where failures occur as the PATH filter (PATH contains C:\work ). I see a LOT of vmtoolsd.exe Createfile, FileSystemControl, and CloseFile operations occurring in quick succession, repeatedly. Has anyone heard of Vmware tools causing filesystem locks on Windows guests?
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
When you log in to vSphere, you might see that a server has a VMware Tools status of "toolsNotRunning" or "toolsNotInstalled" on a VM, but when you log in to Windows, you will see that VMware Tools is installed and when you go in to Services, you will see the VMware Tools service listed as "Running". If you try to stop the service, you get an error that reads, "1053 The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion", then you can start the service again, refresh the VM page in the vSphere Web Client, and it will show "Running" as it should.
And replace them by:
Create with PowerShell an ISO for Windows server 2016 unattended installation including VMware tools.
Use PowerCLI to configure the VM.
Use PowerCLI to configure the OS with invoke-vmscript via the VMware tools.
4) Identify the URL of the VMware tools ISO matching the version to be installed in Windows.
Index of all VMware tools
For example the URL for 6.5 now is:
-tools-windows-10.1.0-4449150.iso