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Dinomil
Contributor
Contributor
‎05-16-2018 07:04 AM

Cannot install VMware Tools

Just installed Fusion 10.1.1 on High Sierra. Made linux rel6 VM.

Can Virtual Machine ->Sharing -> Sharing Settings and see my Mac

home directory, but it says "Shared folder will not be available in the vm until

VMware Tools is installed and running. However, Virtual Machine -> Install VMware Tools

is insensitive. Have shutdown VM and still insensitive. Instructions looks like I need a

CD with the SW on it.  What am I missing?

Message was edited by: a.p. - changed the title from "Carl" to s.th. more descriptive

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a_p_
Leadership
Leadership
‎05-17-2018 10:09 AM

Discussion moved from Accelerating the performance of VMware to VMware Fusion® (for Mac)

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ColoradoMarmot
Champion
Champion
‎05-17-2018 01:14 PM

I haven't done much with Linux, but using the OpenVM tools has been preferred over VMWare's tools.

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a_p_
Leadership
Leadership
‎05-17-2018 01:27 PM

Maybe https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/10.2.0/vmware-tools-user-guide.pdf will help.

André

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Dinomil
Contributor
Contributor
‎05-18-2018 04:58 AM

I ended up seeing that there were a couple of bad sata0:0 lines in the .vmx file. After removing them

was able to continuing to install the vmware tools. Thanks

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