Install Vmware Tools Grayed Out
Jun 30, 2017 - Right-click on the VM you'd like to update, left-click All vCenter Actions, left-click Guest, and then left-click Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. Alternatively, if Install/Upgrade VMware Tools is grayed out, click Upgrade VMware Tools.
Came across this problem today and couldn’t find any Google hits that helped me. Finally hit upon a solution.VMware tools requires the guest to have a CD drive. In my case the physical host doesn’t have a CD drive, and I had no need to mount any CDs in the guest, so while creating the guest I removed the CD drive. No CD drive = no place for VMware to insert the CD. But rather than complain about it, it simply grays out the option.So that’s it.
Install Vmware Tools Greyed Out Mac
Enable the CD drive and you will be able to install VMware tools! Hope this helps.
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Install Vmware Tools Grayed Out Windows 10
Install the latest version of VMware Tools to enhance the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system and improve virtual machine management. When you power on a virtual machine, if a new version of VMware Tools is available, you see a notification in the status bar of the guest operating system.For Windows 2000 and later, VMware Tools installs a virtual machine upgrade helper tool. This tool restores the network configuration if you upgrade from virtual hardware version 4 to version 7 or higher. ■For VMware Player, Fusion, and Workstation virtual machines, if you connected the virtual machine’s virtual CD/DVD drive to an ISO image file when you installed the operating system, change the setting so that the virtual CD/DVD drive is configured to autodetect a physical drive.The autodetect setting enables the virtual machine's first virtual CD/DVD drive to detect and connect to the VMware Tools ISO file for a VMware Tools installation. This ISO file looks like a physical CD to your guest operating system. Use the virtual machine settings editor to set the CD/DVD drive to autodetect a physical drive.