Manually uninstalling VMware Tools in a Mac OS guest

Products

• VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

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

Environment

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

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 (1032440).

Additional Information

Installing VMware Tools in a Mac OS Guest
在 Mac OS 客户机中手动卸载 VMware Tools
Mac OS ゲストの VMware Tools を手動でアンインストールする