22-05-2021

Vmware Workstation 3.2 Download

Vmware Workstation 3.2 Download Software
Vmware Workstation 3.2 Download
Vmware Workstation 3.2 Download

This post is to share the information about how to manually download VMware tools ISO image for various Operating systems based on VMware vSphere versions including the latest version of vSphere such as vSphere 6.5. VMware tools varies for each and every operating system.

To install VMware tools for Linux and Windows virtual machines the users just need to perform a few simples steps given in this article.

Like Oracle VirtualBox extension pack to add extra features for the installed virtual machines, the VMware also offers the VMware tools.

Download VMware Workstation for Windows. Software for developers and system administrators for software development, testing and deployment. VMware Tools 10.3.2 is required for this feature.
VMware Workstation Pro is the industry standard for running multiple operating systems as virtual machines (VMs) on a single Linux or Windows PC. IT professionals, developers and businesses who build, test or demo software for any device, platform or cloud rely on Workstation Pro.

After installing the VMware tools which is a pack of different utilities offered by VMware the user will notice an improvement in the performance of the guest operating systems. It will improve the low Low video resolution,
Inadequate colour depth, restricted movement of the mouse, Inability to copy and paste and drag-and-drop files, Incorrect display of network speed, Missing sound, give the ability to snapshots of the guest OS and synchronizes the time.

The process of the VMware tools installation is the same for Linux such as Ubuntu, Kali, Linux Mint, Debian, Centos, OpenSuse, etc including Windows10/8/7 or any.

Download and Install VMware Tools on Linux and Windows 10/8/7

Step 1: Run VMware Workstation player

First of all, open the VMware workstation payer where you have installed the Linux and Windows virtual machines.

Vmware Workstation 3.2 Download Software

Step 2: Select and start VirtualMachine

After opening the VMware player, select the Virtual machine which you want to run and where you want to install the Vmware tools. It could Windows 10/8/7 or any Linux Distro.

Step 3: Find the Install VMware Tools option

When the Virtual Machine booted completely then go to the Player option given in the VMware player menu. Click on that and then click on the Manage->Install Vmware Tools option.

Step 4: Downloading Vmware Tools

As we click on the Install Vmware tools option, the Player automatically detects the system and download Vmware tool for Linux or Windows respectively.

Step 5: Installing VMware Tools on Linux

Vmware workstation 3.2 download software

On Windows, the installation of Vmware Tools is super easy after downloading the Vmware player simply mount that under CD-Rom automatically from where the user can install it just like any other normal software. However, it is also the same for GUI based Linux operating systems too.

As you can see in the below screenshot, the VMware Tools has been mounted and shown with CD-ROM icon on the screen.

To install this open the command terminal and follow the below-given commands:

Create a directory cdrom to mount the Vmware tools disc

Now, mount the Cdrom to above-created cdrom directory

See the list of files mounted under the directory

Copy the VMwareTools compress file name and use with below copy command. Like in our case it was VMwareTools-10.3.2-9925305.tar.gz and might be different while you are installing it. So, copy that one and paste with below command:

Here we are copying the VmwareTools to a temporary directory for the installation process.

Switch to the Temporary directory…

List the files and extract the VMware tools compress file

Now change the directory to the directory extracted by the Vmware tools which is VMware-tools-distrib

Run Perl script as mentioned below

Press or hit Enter key couple of times to select the default options of these tools…

The output of the above commands

Second Method: Direct Download VMware tools

If you are not able to download the tools from the interface of Vmware player; then visit the official website of Vmware and download Vmware tools directly to install.