When you see one of these messages, click A message that indicates the driver is not Authenticode signed. You can bring the warning message to the foreground. You are using, you may see warning messages at several stages during the installation of VMware Tools. As a result, and depending upon which VMware product Windows Vista uses a new method to install drivers. Warnings When Installing VMware Tools on Some VMware Products The below is from the Guest_OS guide from vmware. My guess is then, at some point the group policy kicks back in, the VM is shutdown or rebooted at some point, and on the next boot up VMwate Tools is not functioning properly again. If Tools is in the Task Bar and I can open the VMware Control Panel applet then I can copy & past or drag & drop with no problem. And, my biggest issue, I cannot copy & past or drag & drop between the VM and the host. None of the executables in the VMware Tools directory will run. I cannot open the VMware Tools Control Panel Applet.
I believe it stops functioning properly when the group policy re-enables UAC, though I am not sure. Confirm UAC is still disabled then install Tools and restart.Īfter that it is hit or miss (upon the restarts thereafter) whether or not Tools is going to functioning properly after booting and logging on. Every time I have installed Tools I have dones this.Ģ. Then, VMware Tools acts flaking again and I go through the samle whole process of getting it wqorking again. But only for a short time and (it seems) after a reboot of the guest OS. Then VMware Tools seems to function normally again and I can drag & drop or copy & paste between the host and the VM. I have to end up uninstalling VMware Tools and then re-installing it. The VMware Tools service is running and I can stop, start, and/or restart the service with no problem. VMware Tools no longer appears in the Windows Task Bar and if I go to the Contro Panel in the VM and try to open the VMware Tools Control Panel applet nothing happens. It seems after a rebbot is when VMware Tools stops functioning properly.
When it stops working, it still seems that all of the drivers are working, but I cannot copy and/or drag & drop between the VM and the host.įor the Guest Isolation setting on the VM I have "Enable drag and drop" checked as well as "Enable copy and paste" checked. If I install VMware Tools it only seems to function for a short time. Run setup64 /a64 and extract to a directory on your systemĬ.I have a Windows Vista guest OS running in VMware Workstation 6.5.2, the most current version., on a Windows Vista host. Download the last supported version of Vmware Tools and installī.
It looks like after Vmware Tools 10.3.10 that Vmware Tools now requires Windows 7 for OpenGL.Īlso in Vmware Workstation the "Windows.iso" no longer supports Vista with no WDDM driver provided.ġ. (I did not try extracting the drivers and installing seperately) Vmware Tools 11.0.6 is the last version of Vmware Tools to install on Vista and 2008. Read the following to download the last Vmware Tools for Vista and 2008 and for what you need to do for working OpenGL I noticed today that Workstation 16 no longer has a Vmware Tools package for Vista and the one mentioned for download on the site via a KB 11.0.6 does support Vista but does not work with OpenGL since it requires Windows 7.