VMWare Tools CD ISO images (which is where the installs come from) can be found in: /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages/ You want 'windows.iso'.

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. 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. Bundling of Tools for most popular guests only 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. 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.

Bifurcation of Tools for legacy and current guests This release of VMware Tools is comprised of two separate delivery vehicles. Will be available for OEM-supported guest operating systems only. Legacy guests that have fallen out of support by their respective vendors will be covered by “frozen”. The frozen Tools will not receive feature enhancements going forward. 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. For more information about support categorization for guest operating systems, see. The following table depicts the two changes described above: Guest OS granularity changes 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.

Consequently, the configurable guest OS attribute for some guests in vSphere 6.5 has become more precise in order to support this change. 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. In previous vSphere releases, these versions were all combined into a single selection: CentOS 4/5/6/7.

Administrators can either edit the guest OS type or leverage the new VM configuration option tools.hint.imageName to ensure the proper ISO image is mounted to these VMs for Tools install and upgrade. Please be aware that current Linux distributions ship with, so most CentOS 7 VMs are likely running OVTs and are not affected by the above scenario. However, for those customers that have chosen to run the vSphere-bundled “Tar Tools” instead, please keep this change in mind. Detailed display of type and version information in the Web Client 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.