I noticed today that Workstation 16 no longer has a Vmware Tools package for Vista and the one mentioned for download on the site via a KB 11.0.6 does support Vista but does not work with OpenGL since it requires Windows 7.
Read the following to download the last Vmware Tools for Vista and 2008 and for what you need to do for working OpenGL
Vmware Workstation 16
Vmware Tools 11.0.6 is the last version of Vmware Tools to install on Vista and 2008. (I did not try extracting the drivers and installing seperately)
It looks like after Vmware Tools 10.3.10 that Vmware Tools now requires Windows 7 for OpenGL.
Also in Vmware Workstation the "Windows.iso" no longer supports Vista with no WDDM driver provided.
To fix:
1. Download the last supported version of Vmware Tools and install
https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/11.0.6/windows/
2. Download https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/10.3.10/windows/ and mount this iso.
a. Copy the install files to your system
b. Run setup64 /a64 and extract to a directory on your system
c. Open Device Manager and point to the extracted folder VMWare Tools\VMware\Drivers\video_wddm to install the video drivers
