- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 INSTALL#
- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 DRIVERS#
- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 UPDATE#
- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 DRIVER#
- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 UPGRADE#
#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 DRIVER#
Starting with Tools 10.1, release notes will be further enhanced to include a table documenting the precise version number of each individual driver and component. One of the goals of decoupling the release of VMware Tools and vSphere was to enable more detailed information about updates through release notes.
#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 UPGRADE#
In the future, those older Tools releases will not be directly upgradable to the latest Tools instead, a two-phase upgrade will be required at that time. Therefore, this is a great time to start planning to upgrade Tools 8.x and 9.0.x to the current version. vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 recently reached End of Support, and the VMware Tools that were bundled with those releases are also destined for a similar fate. Given the very broad backward and forward compatibility of VMware Tools, it is possible that some customers are running VMs with the Tools that shipped as part of very old vSphere releases. Future Tools upgrades for older vSphere VMs If manually extracting, moving, or curating a Tools repository, please ensure all of the supporting bundled files remain together. To facilitate this verification, Tools distributions now include additional files with appropriate hashes. VMware ESXi 6.5 introduces a new layer of security by cryptographically verifying these ISO images each time they are accessed.
#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 INSTALL#
VMware Tools have always been distributed as ISO images that can be mounted to individual VMs in order to install or upgrade. With vSphere 6.5, the Web Client now displays both variations of the version number as well as the specific type of Tools installed in the guest OS, such as MSI, OSP, OVT, or TAR Tools. VMware Tools have always had two different designations: one is a human-readable version number, such as 10.0.7, and the other is an internal code, like 10247. Detailed display of type and version information in the Web Client However, for those customers that have chosen to run the vSphere-bundled “Tar Tools” instead, please keep this change in mind.
Please be aware that current Linux distributions ship with Open VM Tools, so most CentOS 7 VMs are likely running OVTs and are not affected by the above scenario. Administrators can either edit the guest OS type or leverage the new VM configuration option to ensure the proper ISO image is mounted to these VMs for Tools install and upgrade. In previous vSphere releases, these versions were all combined into a single selection: CentOS 4/5/6/7. The most notable example of this change is CentOS: In vSphere 6.5, CentOS guest selections are available for CentOS 7, CentOS 6, and CentOS 4/5. Consequently, the configurable guest OS attribute for some guests in vSphere 6.5 has become more precise in order to support this change. With Tools 10.1 and 10.0.12 there are now two ISO images for certain families of guest operating systems in order to accommodate the bifurcation described above. The following table depicts the two changes described above: For more information about support categorization for guest operating systems, see KB 2015161.
Note, therefore, that the logical upgrade path from 10.0.9 is not 10.0.12 for the vast majority of workloads – rather, it is 10.1. The frozen Tools will not receive feature enhancements going forward. Legacy guests that have fallen out of support by their respective vendors will be covered by “frozen” VMware Tools 10.0.12. VMware Tools 10.1 will be available for OEM-supported guest operating systems only. This release of VMware Tools is comprised of two separate delivery vehicles. Bifurcation of Tools for legacy and current guests
#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 UPDATE#
Similarly, Tools updates for those same bundled guests will be distributed through Update Manager, as they have been in the past, via the tools-light VIB. VMware ESXi 6.5 includes VMware Tools for the most commonly used guest operating systems Tools for other guests are available for download from My VMware. Bundling of Tools for most popular guests only As usual, this version of VMware Tools is compatible with previous vSphere releases, and several enhancements improve the overall manageability experience when used in conjunction with vSphere 6.5.
#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND LATER 10.0.6 DRIVERS#
The next major release of VMware Tools – the collection of in-guest drivers and agents that optimize VM performance and increase manageability – will be delivered with VMware vSphere 6.5, and is also downloadable as of today from My VMware.
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