VMware Tools 10.1.7 Released
VMware Tools version 10.1.7 released, this version fixes and Receive Side Scale (RSS) problem with the VMXNET3 driver. the problem description is in this blog from VMware: https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2017/03/rush-post-vmware-tools-rss-incompatibility-issues.html See full release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vmwaretools/1010/vmware-tools-1017-release-notes.html
VMware Tools 10.1.5 Released
VMware has released VMware Tools version 10.1.5, this contains updated drivers and bug fixes. See the release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vmwaretools/1010/vmware-tools-1015-release-notes.html?src=vmw_so_vex_akjaer_1025
New VMware Tools released
VMware has released 2 new version of VMware tools. Version 10.0.12 caters to the legacy guest operating systems VMware Tools support for Guest Operating Systems in version 10.0.12 winPreVista.iso supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003. linuxPreGLibc25.iso supports Linux guest operating systems earlier than RHEL 5, SLES 11, Ubuntu 7.04, and other distributions with glibc version earlier than…
vShield endpoint / NSX file introspection and VMware Tools 10.x
There might be a performance problem when using vShield endpoint / NSX file introspection, with Trend Micro Deep Security, and other hypervisor virus scanner, when using VMware Tools version 10.0, 10.5 and 10.6. See the KB here: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2144236 VMware has released a new version of VMware Tools 10.8, that resolves this problem: Release notes: https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vmwaretools/1008/vmware-tools-1008-release-notes.html
vSphere 6.0 VMware Tools, and Localized Windows
I had a customer with a problem where he could not upgrade VMware Tools on a danish localized Windows Server 2008 R2. The solution was to change it to US localized and choose to copy the setting to: “Welcome screen and system accounts” and “New user accounts”. And after upgrading/installing VMware Tools change it back…