Darwin.iso: VMware Tools image for OSX Follow the procedures listed in the following documents to download VMware Tools for platforms that are not bundled with ESXi: VMware Tools 11.0.1 Release Notes. Aug 8, 2017 - Learn how to manually mount the VMware Tools ISO image by simply choosing an. Darwin.iso supports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later. The correct darwjn version as of now is Attach. Update Iso 5.0; Darwin Vmware Tools; About This File. Ive created an El Capitan VM initially without icloud or keychain. I ran the vmware tools package from the darwin iso but got a message about unable to source sound or something.

Updated on: 14 JAN 2020

VMware Tools | 14 JAN 2020 | Build 15389592

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What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics: Vmware Tools Darwin.iso 5.0.3

What's New

VMware Tools 11.0.5 offline bundle does not contain tools vib files for ESXi 5.5.
Upgrade to the latest 8.43 version of pcre.
Upgrade to the latest 18.06 version of 7zip .

Earlier Releases of VMware Tools

For earlier releases of VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.

Before You Begin

VMware Tools 11.0.5 supports the following guest operating systems:
- windows.iso supports Windows Vista and later.
  - VMware Tools 11.0.5 depends on and ships Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019. While preparing the system for VMware Tools 11.0.5 installation, Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 is installed on the system as a prerequisite. Installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 11.0.5 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 11.0.5. Refer to Microsoft's update KB2977003 for latest supported Visual C++ downloads.
  - Windows OS level prerequisites
    - Windows Server 2019
    - Windows Server 2016
    - Windows 10
    - Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft update KB2919355
    - Windows 8.1 with Microsoft update KB2919355
    - Windows Server 2012
    - Windows 8
    - Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
    - Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
    - Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
    - Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2)
- darwin.iso supports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later.
- For details on linux.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.21 Release Notes.
- For details on solaris.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.10 Release Notes.
VMware Tools ISO images are frozen for some end of life guest operating systems. Some ISO images are not included 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.com.
VMware Tools for Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit installer executable (.exe) files are available for download. These files are provided for easier access and installation of VMware Tools in Windows guest operating systems.

Important note about upgrading to ESXi 6.0 or later

Resolution on incompatibility and general guidelines: While upgrading ESXi hosts to ESXi 6.0 or later, and using older versions of Horizon View Agent, refer to the knowledge base articles:

Internationalization

VMware Tools 11.0.5 is available in the following languages:

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

Product Support Notice

The Windows pre-Vista iso image for VMWare Tools is no longer packaged with ESXi. The Windows pre-Vista iso image is available for download by users who require it. For download information, see the Product Download page.

End of Feature Support Notice

The next release of VMTools will no longer be installable on Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2.
Balloon driver has been removed from MacOS VMware Tools 11.0.0.
VMware Tools 11.0.0 release freezes support for Solaris guests.
The tar tools (linux.iso) and OSPs shipped with VMware Tools 10.3.5 release will continue to be supported. However, releases after VMware Tools 10.3.5 will only include critical and security fixes and no new feature support in these types of VMware Tools (tar tools and OSP's). It is recommended that customers use open-vm-tools for those operating systems that support open-vm-tools. For more information on different types of VMware Tools, see https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/02/understanding-the-three-types-of-vm-tools.html

Compatibility Notes

Starting with VMware Tools version 10.2.0, Perl script-based VMware Tools installation for FreeBSD has been discontinued. FreeBSD systems are supported only through the open-vm-tools packages directly available from FreeBSD package repositories. FreeBSD packages for open-vm-tools 10.1.0 and later are available from FreeBSD package repositories.

Guest Operating System Customization Support

The Guest OS Customization Support Matrix provides details about the guest operating systems supported for customization.

Interoperability Matrix

The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware Products. The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix of VMware Tools 11.0.0 can be applied to VMware Tools 11.0.5.

Installation and Upgrades for this release

VMware Tools can be downloaded from the Product Download page.

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 (1014294).To set up productLocker to point to the shared datastore, see KB 2004018.
For specific instructions to install, upgrade, and configure VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.

Windows guest drivers installed by VMware Tools

VMware Tools 11.0.5 supports the following driver versions on a Windows Guest Operating System.

Drivers	VMware Tools 11.0.5
Hardware Drivers
`vmci`	9.8.16.0
`vsock`	9.8.16.0
`pvscsi`	1.3.15.0
`wddm`	8.16.07.0005
`xpdm`	12.1.8.0
`vmxnet3`	1.8.16.0
`vmxnet2`	2.2.0.0
`vmmouse`	12.5.10.0
`vmusbmouse`	12.5.10.0
`vmaudio`	5.10.0.3506
`efifw`	1.0.0.0
Software Drivers
`vmrawdsk.sys`	1.1.5.0
`vmmemctl.sys`	7.5.5.0
`vmhgfs.sys`	11.0.40.0
`vsepflt.sys`	11.0.5.0
`vnetflt.sys`	11.0.0.0 (For Kernel-Mode Code Signing, Windows Vista and Windows 2008 only)
`vnetWFP.sys`	11.0.5.0
`glgxi.sys`	2.3.0.0
`giappdef`	2.3.0.0
Security DLL
`vmwsu.dll`	2.0.0.0

Resolved Issues

Outbound IPv6 traffic for ICMP and UDP protocols could experience packet drops.
NSX Network Introspection Driver is used to retrieve