https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Unable-to-install-VMware-Tools-Option-Grayed-Out/m-p/2824956#M36199 <P>Yep, this worked. Tysm! Should have thought of this earlier... lol.</P> Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:28:51 GMT Bloxxer 2021-01-23T19:28:51Z https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Unable-to-install-VMware-Tools-Option-Grayed-Out/m-p/2824924#M36195 <P>So I'm new to VMware (used to use VirtualBox), and I recently made a Windows 7 VM on VMware Workstation Player. After completing the setup and whatnot, I tried to download the tools but the option was grayed out. I tried everything, switching everything you could on the CD ROM settings, but nothing fixed it. Does anyone have a fix to this?</P> Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:24:30 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Unable-to-install-VMware-Tools-Option-Grayed-Out/m-p/2824924#M36195 Bloxxer 2021-01-23T09:24:30Z https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Unable-to-install-VMware-Tools-Option-Grayed-Out/m-p/2824929#M36196 <P>You can manually mount the ISO (it should be in the install directory; if it isn't, you can <A href="https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/windows/" target="_self">download</A> it) and run the install.</P> Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:32:43 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Unable-to-install-VMware-Tools-Option-Grayed-Out/m-p/2824929#M36196 ender_ 2021-01-23T12:32:43Z https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Unable-to-install-VMware-Tools-Option-Grayed-Out/m-p/2824956#M36199 <P>Yep, this worked. Tysm! Should have thought of this earlier... lol.</P> Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:28:51 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Unable-to-install-VMware-Tools-Option-Grayed-Out/m-p/2824956#M36199 Bloxxer 2021-01-23T19:28:51Z