VMware Tools 1. 0. Release Notes. Updated on 2. MAR 2. 01. 7VMware Tools 2. FEB 2. 01. 7 Build 5. Check for additions and updates to these release notes. Whats in the Release Notes The release notes cover the following topics. Whats New VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machines guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. VMware Tools support for guest Operating Systems in 1. Windows Vista and later. Linux guest operating systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 and later, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 1. Ubuntu 1. 0. 0. 4 and later. It also supports other distributions with glibc versions 2. Mac OS X versions 1. Free. BSD versions. Solaris versions. Drivers and Certifications Signed Windows Display Driver Model WDDM 8. VMware Tools 1. 0. For more information on drivers, see Windows guest drivers installed by VMware Tools. TLS Support VMware Tools 1. TLSv. 1. 2. Resolved Issues This release of VMware Tools 1. Resolved Issues section. Earlier Releases of VMware Tools. VMware Tools 1. 0. Release Notes. For earlier releases of VMware Tools 1. VMware Tools Documentation page. Before You Begin. VMware Tools ISO images for a few end of life guest operating systems are frozen. Some ISO images are not shipped with ESXi in the tools light VIB. For more details, see the VMware Tools Documentation page. All VMware Tools ISO images are available for download from http my. VMware Tools for Windows are available for download in 3. Yara O Yara Song Free Download. These files are provided for easier access and installation of VMware Tools in Windows guest operating systems. Important note about upgrading to ESXi 5. Update 3b or later. For the resolution on incompatibility and general guidelines while upgrading ESXi hosts to ESXi 5. Error Installing Vmci Driver' title='Error Installing Vmci Driver' />US232R last downloaded 21. Users. Download Rating 92. Windows 7 drivers US232R driver download software, Drivers for windows xp. Whats in the Release Notes The release notes cover the following topics Whats New Earlier Releases of ESXi 5. Internationalization Compatibility and Installation. Update 3b or ESXi 6. Update 1 or later, using older versions of Horizon View Agent, refer to the knowledge base articles Internationalization VMware Tools 1. English. French. German. Spanish. Italian. Japanese. Korean. Simplified Chinese. Traditional Chinese. Compatibility. VMware Tools 1. VMware v. Sphere ESXi 5. VMware Workstation 1. VMware Fusion 8. 0. See VMware Compatibility Guide for more information. VMware Tools 1. 0. Direct. X 1. 0. 0 and Open. GL 3. 3 on Windows guests when used with VMware Workstation 1. VMware Fusion 8. 0, and releases of VMware v. Sphere where the virtual device supports the required feature. Error Installing Vmci Driver' title='Error Installing Vmci Driver' />The VMware guest operating system Open. GL driver for Windows and Linux supports the Open. SWVBBqFXVY/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Error Installing Vmci Driver' title='Error Installing Vmci Driver' />GL 3. The Open. GL3. 3 compatibility profile is not supported. Open. GL guest driver only supports version 3. The VMware Tools installer option to clobber Linux kernel modules that are shipped with the operating system is deprecated. In the upcoming versions of VMware Tools for Linux, the clobber option is removed from the installer. Guest Operating System Customization Support. The Guest OS Customization Support Matrix provides details about the guest operating systems supported for customization. Installation and Upgrades for this release VMware Tools can be downloaded from the Product Download page. VMware Tools Operating System Specific Packages can be downloaded from http packages. For more information on installing OSPs, see the VMware Tools Installation Guide for Operating System Specific Packages for ESXi versions 5. 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 General VMware Tools installation instructions 1. To set up the product. Locker to point to the shared datastore, see KB 2. For specific instructions to install, upgrade, and configure VMware Tools, see VMware Tools Documentation page. Upgrade Information Upgrade Support for Future Releases of VMware Tools Upgrade support is available for older versions of VMware Tools shipped with ESXi that have reached end of support to newer versions of VMware Tools shipped concurrently to the immediate ESXi version released at the time of end of support of the older ESXi releases. Support for ESXi 5. ESXi 5. 1 VMware Tools Extended support Extended support is available for VMware Tools versions shipped with ESXi 5. ESXi 5. 1 Upgrade Upgrade of VMware Tools to version 1. ESXi 5. 0 and ESXi 5. Virtual machines running VMware Tools 1. ESXi 5. 0 and 5. 1. Upgrade Impact. The upgrade support implies that users follow a two step upgrade process to get versions later than 1. VMware Tools on non legacy guest operating systems Upgrade VMware Tools that are shipped with ESXi 5. ESXi 5. 1 to newer version of VMware Tools version from 9. ESXi 5. 5 to VMware Tools 1. ESXi. Upgrade VMware Tools to later versions. For a simple upgrade, upgrade to VMware Tools bundled with the supported version of ESXi. VMware Tools is backward and forward compatible with ESXi. Newer versions of VMware Tools are compatible with older ESXi versions supported and conversely. Upgrade of VMware Tools to version 1. VMware ESXi 5. 5, Patch Release ESXi. VMware ESXi 6. 0, Patch Release ESXi. Windows guest drivers installed by VMware Tools. VMware Tools 1. 0. Windows Guest Operating System. Hardware drivers. Drivers. Versionvmci. Software drivers. Drivers. Versionvmrawdsk. For operating systems Windows Vista and latervsepflt. Download Microsoft Image Composer 1.5 Software. For Kernel Mode Code Signingvnet. WFP. sys. 10. 1. 0. Resolved Issues. Update to Open. SSL. Open. SSL is updated to version 1. The Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM configuration for VMware Tools service is lost after upgrading VMware Tools. The customized PAM configuration in etvpam. VMware Tools, which results in authentication failures. This issue is resolved in this release. VMware Tools installation and upgrade fails on Cent. OS and Oracle Linux virtual machines. VMware Tools installation and upgrade fails on Cent. OS and Oracle Linux virtual machines. On ESXi hosts older than version 6. Cent. OS, and Oracle Linux virtual machines have one guest. OS designation. For VMware Tools 1. Cent. OS and Oracle Linux guests are limited to a build that uses glibc version earlier than 2. This issue occurs because the linux. Pre. Glibc. 25. iso is not part of the standard ESXi installation. Automatic mounting of the VMware Tools ISO for installation by v. Center Server or v. Sphere Update Manager might fail with an error similar to the following An error occurred while trying to access image file usrlibvmwareisoimageslinux. Pre. Glibc. 25. isoThis issue is resolved in this release. Authentication failure is reported as unknown general system error. Attempts to authenticate through VGAuth service might result in an authentication specific error such as an expired account or password. The authentication specific error might then be incorrectly reported as an unknown general system error, similar to the following Communication. Exception Failed to create temp file on target lt IPADDRESS A general system error occurred Unknown error This issue is resolved in this release. Linux virtual machines with old kernel version fail with a VMXNET3 driver. RHEL 5 virtual machines with kernel version 2. VLAN is not configured in the virtual machine. This issue is resolved in this release. Unable to backup virtual machines with active docker containers. Attempts to take quiesced snapshots may fail on RHEL 7 guest operating systems that are running docker containers. Docker version 1.