VMWare Tools and Windows 2003 Server (x64)

[TECH198]

Specially, when running (x64) edition of Windows Server 2003, why does VMWare Tools take so long to start up after login ?

You can even see status bar icon "VMWare Tools is not running" but it you wait a bit it changes.

This wouldn't be much of an issue, except sometimes it halts other apps from starting..

This is on a clean install,,, and only occurs when cold boot.. login out and login woks fine (probably because its already loaded)

[Shreyskar · Accepted solution]

What is the version of VMware tools running?

For server 2003 the latest version of VMware Tools is 10.0.12-4448496.

Windows server 2003 is EOL and hence you need to check if you are running a compatible vmware tools with it.

VMware Compatibility Guide - Guest/Host Search

[TECH198]

I have version 10.0.12.325 installed