VMWare Tools iso images for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, and Server 2003. Two ISOs with self-explanatory names.
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THIS WORKS WITH WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1!
Although I actually ran this on Windows XP Media Center 2002 Service Pack 1, in this case it’s kinda the same thing, so yeah. I was using the winPreVista.iso disk.
Also, this version of VMware Tools included is 10.0.12 dated 2016.
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You don’t need VMware Tools for this to work.
Not sure what the problem is, but try only NAT, in order to avoid confusion and for Host access this is the simple way. Check your address space with «ipconfig /all» — it has to be the same as NAT networking address space. Please make a note that while ping might work, tcp/ip doesn’t really work for all services if you don’t boot the Windows computer (talking about client now). If your addresses are somehow wrong, change them manually. Please observe that also Gateway must be correct if you require Internet access. It kind of sounds that you don’t automatically get correct addresses to your client or shuffling between NAT and Bridged may have caused confusion or proper reboots have not been done between trials. … or the testing has been wrong: Your host access might have been OK, but Internet doesn’t work because Gateway address is wrong.
If it doesn’t work, check that Host computer doesn’t block anything — disable all Firewalls or something and reboot to verify that they are shut. When you get it to work, open Firewalls and configure properly.
For filesharing, you don’t necessarily need any of this. Just drag and drop between host and client — it works well with GB-class files — the write speed of the disk(s) is the main limiting factor. If you need an UNC-share for some application, of course then you need to get the networking to work. Basically, this is a networking problem, not really anything VMware specific — if that helps to analyze the situation.
… of course you need to verify first that your client Ethernet card is working … if it isn’t you obviously cannot configure anything manually.
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I have installed VMware Player 6.0.4 on my 32-bit Linux PC and installed Windows XP on the virtual machine. I tried to install VMware tools on the guest, but it isn’t available on the servers anymore.
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· 3 yr. ago[VCIX-DCV]
V10 should support XP
https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/
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· 3 yr. ago
The legacy tools release (10.0.12 — https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/10.0/rn/vmware-tools-10012-release-notes.html ) is what you want, from ShadowSon’s link above.
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Thanks. It’s working.
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Sometimes decommissioning old system is not easy as it looks, as this has a lots of dependency on business as well as on end users. As Microsoft had already made the announcement few years back about the End of Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as well as some other old traditional legacy EUC OS. Microsoft Product Life Cycle . As last few weeks back at one of my customer site we got to know that one of the machine they had recently migrated from physical to Virtual (VMware vSphere 6.7U1) and are facing trouble to install the VMware Tools. Later at the time of troubleshooting I found out the machine is Windows 2003 which they need to up and running for at least 2 quarters as they are coming up with new solution for that particular project. Once the migration was done from physical to virtual which was successful one for the support teams once they trying to install the VMware tools they were getting errors stating that ” The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.”
Installing and Using VMware Tools. As VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you would lose important functionality and convenience. Whenever I design or deploy/implement VMware solution I generally go through the release notes of the product which is very important at the time of every vSphere Major Release VMware announces the release of Latest VMware tools,
These Notes clear stats that there is no iso or packages has been released for Windows 2003 or earlier OS. The list of the OS which support these latest VMware tools are below.
Windows OS level prerequisites
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows 8
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
- Windows 7 SP1
- Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
- Windows Vista SP2
- Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft update KB2919355
- Windows 8.1 with Microsoft update KB2919355
But As we all know VMware tools comes with drivers and some other important metrics which will be helpful in future for troubleshooting and managing and planning the resources accordingly with the behavior of a virtual machine. As this newly migrated VM was running on vSphere 6.7 U1 and after several tries and getting the above mentioned error, I come up with an idea that lets install the Older Version of VMware tools which I downloaded from VMware, but that also resulted in a failure. After reading the release notes of vSphere 6.5 I found out that the VMware Tools Version 10.0.12 and after going through the release notes I found out that this contains a winprevista.iso “Bingo” here you go, I was fortunate enough that in one of my lab environment I was running vSphere 6.5U1 and now I need to extract the Winprevista.iso file from this host to my machine and need to extract using WinZip or 7Zip program. To get this file you can use the any SFTP client which works over port number 22, then you need to login to your host using root credentials and password, navigate to the location /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/ and look for the desired mentioned image download it and extract it using the tools which you are comfortable with I used the 7zip program for this.
Now you will be thinking why I didn’t copied this iso file directly to the host where my newly migrated VM was residing, So when we install the VMware tools a mount has been initiated and to get the mount we need to have the supportive Windows 2003 CD ROM driver on that machine which we didn’t had, So now I had Copy all the content to a folder in my machine for that first I used the WinSCP client to copy that iso than mount it using the default mount options which we are getting in Windows 2012 Servers. Copy all the content to your local media or other NTFS drive.
As the machine neither had the CD ROM driver nor has the network connectivity, then I utilized the VMware Edit Virtual Machine Feature, for that.
Hope this have been informative for you. See you in the another blog post.
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