VMw 7, Win98SE Guest, old Tools

[Gork]

I am running VMware Workstation 7.0.0 build-203739 on a WinXP host. My guest OS is Win98SE. I installed Workstation with the installer version that downloads VMware Tools. The VMware Tools which installed is 7.7.0 build-190614 and Tools complains that it can be upgraded. I can uninstall and reinstall Tools just fine, no problem there. This leads me to believe that either the downloadable pre-2000 Tools ISO is not the correct version, or is not labelled correctly as the correct version. As I understand it the build of Tools should match the build of Workstation, and it does not. I have tried installing Tools through the pop up in Workstation which lets you know Tools is out of date, through Tools itself, through the VM menu in Workstation and via the ISO being mounted on a virtual CD drive in the host all with the same results. I have also tried installing Tools in the default directory as well as a different directory on the guest.

FWIW, I'm running a WinXP and a Win7 guest as well and the Tools installed fine on those VMs, with a matching building number.

On a side note, congrats to whoever at VMware figured out the issue where Win98 would see the Tools ISO as an audio CD and fixed it.

[Gork]

I tried uninstalling Workstation and reinstalling the full version which includes the Tools .iso files. I'm having the same results; Tools in the Win98SE guest still thinks it nees to be updated, and Tools version is 7.7.0-190614. VMware Workstation is still version 7.7.0-203739.

Is anyone else having similar or differing results running Win98 as the guest os?

[Gork]

Ok, one last shameless bump. I've still not been able to figure out if VMware is just using a non updated version of the tools for Win98 guests or if I'm doing something wrong. Any input would be much appreciated.

Now back to my mocha from Starbucks.

[continuum]

ignore the warnings - you are using latest version already

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[Gork]

Thanks. This suggests to me that VMware just didn't update the ISO to reflect that it is the latest version for the release of the latest Workstation version.

[continuum]

I doubt that a new version of the pre-win2k.iso is even necessary

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[Gork]

Yeah, makes sense. They probably just neglected to update the version number info on the ISO, for whatever reason, to alleviate the error is all - even though Tools probably wasn't and doesn't need to be updated.

[admin]

Thanks for reporting this. We are tracking this issue internally.

[jsa]

A year later, and still same problem.

Running Workstation 7.1.2 build-301548. Two licenses, one on Opensuse, the other on Windows 7. Same version.

Similar win98se virtual machines in each platform.

The win7 hosted version always shows tools as upgradeable in the win98se guest. But the win98se guest running on the linux host shows the same version number and does NOT indicate that tools are upgradeable. In both cases tools version is 7.1.2 build-301548.

[Quahog]

Year-and-a-half later and still the problem exists. Will it kill someone there to set the bit to permanently say win98 has the correct version of the tools? No, it's not a show stopper, but I don't like to see that little error notice! :smileylaugh:

[pavel-a]

+1.

VMWare: please, please, make new versions of Workstation Just Work with old Tools in guest.

-- pa