To resolve this issue, you must uninstall VMware Tools from a Mac OS X guest:
- In the guest, navigate to /Library/Application Support/VMware Tools.
- Run Uninstall VMware Tools.app.
- Delete these files and folders if they exist:
Note: not all files and folders listed will be present depending on the version of OS X being used as the guest OS:
/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vmware.launchd.vmware-tools-userd.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vmware.launchd.tools.plist
/sbin/mount_vmhgfs
/System/Library/Extensions/VMwareGfx.kext
- Restart the Mac OS guest.
Once the guest has restarted, you can install VMware Tools again.:
- In Fusion, go to Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools.
For more information, see Installing VMware Tools in a Mac OS guest (1032440).