Updated on: 12 Sep 2018 VMware Tools 12 SEP 2018 Build 9925305 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. What's in the Release Notes The release notes cover the following topics:. What's New This release of VMware Tools resolves a number of VMware AppDefense issues. It is recommended that VMware AppDefense users use VMware Tools 10.3.2.
Note: is deprecated due to a VMXNET3 driver related issue. For more information, see. Install, or or an earlier version of VMware Tools. VMware Tools 10.3.2 supports the following guest operating systems:. windows.iso supports Windows Vista and later. VMware Tools 10.3.0 depends on and ships Microsoft Visual C 2017 Redistributable version 14.0.
VMware Workstation 5.0 Installing VMware Tools. The installers for VMware Tools for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and NetWare guest operating systems are.
While preparing the system for VMware Tools 10.3.0 installation, Microsoft Visual C 2017 Redistributable is installed on the system as a prerequisite. Installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 10.3.0 is not supported for Windows versions that do not meet the prerequisites and customers should continue to use VMware Tools 10.2.x or older until they can patch or update Windows OS to meet the prerequisites for VMware Tools 10.3.0. Windows OS level prerequisites. Windows Server 2016.
Windows 10. Windows Server 2012 R2. Windows 8.1. Windows Server 2012. Windows 8. Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Windows 7 SP1.
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Windows Vista SP2. Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft update. Windows 8.1 with Microsoft update. linux.iso supports Linux guest operating systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and later, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 and later, Ubuntu 10.04 and later. It also supports other distributions with glibc versions 2.5 and later. darwin.iso supports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later.
solaris.iso supports Solaris versions. Integration of VMware AppDefense with VMware Tools: VMware Tools installation includes the VMware AppDefense, a security management, and monitoring solution. This data center security solution is based on application control, detection, and response. For more information, see the.
Changes in the OpenGL driver: OpenGL driver has been updated for bug fixes and performance improvements. Vertex buffer object (VBO) optimization. Display list drawing optimization. VMware Tools lifecycle using driver update from Windows Update server: This integration will allow you to update the PVSCSI driver during a Windows update. This feature supports PVSCSI for Windows Server 2016 only. Shared folders: FUSE-based Shared Folders client which is used as a replacement for the kernel mode client supports Linux distributions with kernel version 3.10 and later.
VMware Tools user space compiler upgrade: Compiler for VMware Tools 10.3.0 for Windows has been upgraded to Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. Earlier Releases of VMware Tools. For earlier releases of VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools page. Before You Begin Important note about upgrading to VMware Tools 10.3.0 Installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 10.3.0 is not supported for Windows versions that do not meet the prerequisites. Users are recommended to use VMware Tools 10.2.x or older until Windows OS is updated to meet the prerequisites for VMware Tools 10.3.0. NOTE: VMware Tools 10.3.0 for Windows installs Microsoft Visual C 2017 Redistributable version 14.0 on the system which might need a system restart.
Windows users are highly recommended to plan for a system restart before installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 10.3.0. VMware Tools ISO images are frozen for some end of life guest operating systems. Some ISO images are not included with ESXi in the tools-light VIB. For more details, see the VMware Tools page. All VMware Tools ISO images are available for download from.
VMware Tools for Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit installer executable (.exe) files are available for download. These files are provided for easier access and installation of VMware Tools in Windows guest operating systems. When a newer version of vmtoolspkg VIB is installed, VMware Tools status might not change. This limitation is observed in vSphere 5.5.x and update releases.
To work around, power off and power on the VM or reboot the host. Important note about upgrading to ESXi 5.5 Update 3b or later Resolution on incompatibility and general guidelines: While upgrading ESXi hosts to ESXi 5.5 Update 3b or ESXi 6.0 Update 1 or later, and using older versions of Horizon View Agent, refer to the knowledge base articles:. Internationalization VMware Tools 10.3.2 is available in the following languages:. English.
French. German. Spanish.
Italian. Japanese. Korean.
Simplified Chinese. Traditional Chinese Product Support Notice The Windows pre-Vista iso image for VMWare Tools is no longer packaged with ESXi. The Windows pre-Vista iso image is available for download by users who require it. For download information, see the page. Compatibility Notes. Starting with VMware Tools version 10.2.0, Perl script-based VMware Tools installation for FreeBSD has been discontinued. FreeBSD systems are supported only through the open-vm-tools packages directly available from FreeBSD package repositories.
FreeBSD packages for open-vm-tools 10.1.0 and later are available from FreeBSD package repositories. Guest Operating System Customization Support The provides details about the guest operating systems supported for customization. Interoperability Matrix The provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware Products. The of VMware Tools 10.3.0 can be applied to VMware Tools 10.3.2. Installation and Upgrades for this release VMware Tools can be downloaded from the page.
VMware Tools Operating System Specific Packages can be downloaded from. For more information on installing OSPs, see the VMware Tools Installation Guide for Operating System Specific Packages for. The steps to install VMware Tools vary depending on your VMware product and the guest operating system you have installed. For general steps to install VMware Tools in most VMware products, see.To set up productLocker to point to the shared datastore, see. For specific instructions to install, upgrade, and configure VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools page. Windows guest drivers installed by VMware Tools VMware Tools 10.3.2 supports the following driver versions on a Windows Guest Operating System.
VMware provides the widest virtualization support for guest operating systems in the industry to enable your environments and maximize your investments. The VMware Compatibility Guide shows the certification status of operating system releases for use as a Guest OS by the following VMware products:. VMware ESXi/ESX Server 3.0 and later. VMware Workstation 6.0 and later. VMware Fusion 2.0 and later. VMware ACE 2.0 and later. VMware Server 2.0 and later For the above products, VMware provides support only for the guest operating system releases that are listed as certified in this guide.
In addition, VMware ESX and ESXi versions support the exact same guest operating systems even though you will find search results only for VMware ESX prior to the 5.0 release. For other VMware product and solutions not listed here, refer to individual product documentation found at the VMware Documentation Web site at.
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