Having trouble installing VMware Tools on a Win10 Enterprise VM (vSphere 5.5). Install initiates then never reports anything beyond that. Is there something special that needs to be done to make this work?
-Thanks
Also have installed the Update Manager plugin which is reporting compliance state incompatible.
When installing the tools, are you choosing the Interactive Install or the Automated one?
Try doing the Interactive install instead.
I also second Andre's comment about Firewall/Antivirus possibly blocking the installer. Try disabling it. Also, you may need to disable UAC.
Only a guess. Maybe a compatibility, or virus scan/endpoint protection issue!? Anyway, you may try to use the latest VMware tools to see whether they work (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2015/09/vmware-tools-10-0-0-released.html)
André
When installing the tools, are you choosing the Interactive Install or the Automated one?
Try doing the Interactive install instead.
I also second Andre's comment about Firewall/Antivirus possibly blocking the installer. Try disabling it. Also, you may need to disable UAC.
Looks like disabling UAC solved it. Thanks!
In the future, you can choose INTERACTIVE, open the CD Drive in the VM and right click on SETUP.EXE and run as an administrator.
To follow-up, I notice the Summary tab of the vSphere client often reports "Not running (Current)" for this VM.
The original reason for the reinstall on VMware Tools was a recommendation from Veeam as this VM continually reports "Guest processing skipped (check VMware Tools status)" when backing up in Veeam v.8.
How do I disable UAC?