These files are provided for easier access and installation of VMware Tools in Windows guest operating systems. VMware Tools for Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit installer executable (.exe) files are available for download.All VMware Tools ISO images are available for download from. For more details, see the VMware Tools Documentation page. Some ISO images are not included with ESXi in the tools-light VIB. VMware Tools ISO images are frozen for some end of life guest operating systems.For details on solaris.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.10 Release Notes.For details on linux.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.21 Release Notes.
darwin.iso supports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later.Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2).Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
Windows 8.1 with Microsoft update KB2919355.
While preparing the system for VMware Tools 11.0.6 installation, Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 20 is installed on the system as a prerequisite. Installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 11.0.6 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 11.0.6. VMware Tools 11.0.6 depends on and ships Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 20.windows.iso supports Windows Vista and later.VMware Tools 11.0.6 supports the following guest operating systems:.For earlier releases of VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.
Customers can either upgrade the ESX hosts to 6.5U2 onwards or download the tools setup.exe from to the guest and run it from there.