Manually uninstalling VMware Tools in a Mac OS guest

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• VMware Tools does not install correctly.
• You cannot uninstall VMware Tools.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi

Resolution

To resolve this issue, you must uninstall VMware Tools from a Mac OS X guest:
 

1. In the guest, navigate to /Library/Application Support/VMware Tools.
2. Run Uninstall VMware Tools.app.
3. 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
    
4. Restart the Mac OS guest.

 

Once the guest has restarted, you can install VMware Tools again.:

1. In Fusion, go to Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools.

For more information, see Installing VMware Tools in a Mac OS Guest.

 

Additional Information

Installing VMware Tools in a Mac OS Guest.