Overview of VMware Tools for VMware Fusion
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Overview of VMware Tools for VMware Fusion

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Article ID: 307073

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Products

VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

This article provides an overview of VMware Tools for VMware Fusion and the resources for installing and troubleshooting VMware Tools.

Environment

VMware Fusion Pro 10.x
VMware Fusion 7.x
VMware Fusion 3.x
VMware Fusion 8.x
VMware Fusion 4.x
VMware Fusion 1.x
VMware Fusion Pro 8.x
VMware Fusion 12.x
VMware Fusion Pro 12.x
VMware Fusion 5.x
VMware Fusion Pro 11.x
VMware Fusion 11.x
VMware Fusion 2.x
VMware Fusion 6.x
VMware Fusion 10.x

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Overview of VMware Tools

VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system. It also helps you to efficiently manage virtual machines.

Installing VMware Tools eliminates or improves these issues:

  • Low video resolution
  • Inadequate color depth
  • Incorrect display of network speed
  • Restricted movement of the mouse
  • Inability to copy and paste and drag-and-drop files
  • Missing sound

VMware Tools includes these components:

  • VMware Tools service
  • VMware device drivers
  • VMware user process
  • VMware Tools control panel
  • Thin Print printing services

VMware Tools is included in the VMware Fusion installation. It is an .iso file (a CD image, or virtual CD), and Fusion comes with a different .iso file for each type of supported guest operating system, such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

For a list of supported operating systems, see the Compatibility Guide for your version of VMware Fusion.

Installing VMware Tools

When virtual machines are created using Easy Install, VMware Tools is automatically installed during the first successful boot of the virtual machine.

For virtual machines that are not created using Easy Install, you must manually install VMware Tools by navigating to Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools.

For information on installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine, see Installing VMware Tools in a Fusion virtual machine running Windows (1003417).

For information on installing VMware Tools in a virtual machine running Linux, see:

For information on installing VMware Tools in a virtual machine running Mac OS, see Installing VMware Tools in a Mac OS Guest (1032440).

 

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