- Installing VMware Tools on Win2003/XP/Vista Running on vSphere 6.7
- VMware Tools 10.3.2 Release Notes
- VMware Workstation 5.0
- VMware Tools for Windows Guests
- Installing VMware Tools in a Windows Guest Operating System
- Vmware tools для windows 2003
- Prerequisites
- Procedure
- Results
- What to do next
- VMWare и Windows Server 2003
Installing VMware Tools on Win2003/XP/Vista Running on vSphere 6.7
Sometimes decommissioning old system is not easy as it looks, as this has a lots of dependency on business as well as on end users. As Microsoft had already made the announcement few years back about the End of Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as well as some other old traditional legacy EUC OS. Microsoft Product Life Cycle . As last few weeks back at one of my customer site we got to know that one of the machine they had recently migrated from physical to Virtual (VMware vSphere 6.7U1) and are facing trouble to install the VMware Tools. Later at the time of troubleshooting I found out the machine is Windows 2003 which they need to up and running for at least 2 quarters as they are coming up with new solution for that particular project. Once the migration was done from physical to virtual which was successful one for the support teams once they trying to install the VMware tools they were getting errors stating that ” The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.”
Installing and Using VMware Tools. As VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you would lose important functionality and convenience. Whenever I design or deploy/implement VMware solution I generally go through the release notes of the product which is very important at the time of every vSphere Major Release VMware announces the release of Latest VMware tools,
VMware Tools 10.3.2 Release Notes
These Notes clear stats that there is no iso or packages has been released for Windows 2003 or earlier OS. The list of the OS which support these latest VMware tools are below.
Windows OS level prerequisites
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows 8
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
- Windows 7 SP1
- Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
- Windows Vista SP2
- Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft update KB2919355
- Windows 8.1 with Microsoft update KB2919355
But As we all know VMware tools comes with drivers and some other important metrics which will be helpful in future for troubleshooting and managing and planning the resources accordingly with the behavior of a virtual machine. As this newly migrated VM was running on vSphere 6.7 U1 and after several tries and getting the above mentioned error, I come up with an idea that lets install the Older Version of VMware tools which I downloaded from VMware, but that also resulted in a failure. After reading the release notes of vSphere 6.5 I found out that the VMware Tools Version 10.0.12 and after going through the release notes I found out that this contains a winprevista.iso “Bingo” here you go, I was fortunate enough that in one of my lab environment I was running vSphere 6.5U1 and now I need to extract the Winprevista.iso file from this host to my machine and need to extract using WinZip or 7Zip program. To get this file you can use the any SFTP client which works over port number 22, then you need to login to your host using root credentials and password, navigate to the location /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/ and look for the desired mentioned image download it and extract it using the tools which you are comfortable with I used the 7zip program for this.
Now you will be thinking why I didn’t copied this iso file directly to the host where my newly migrated VM was residing, So when we install the VMware tools a mount has been initiated and to get the mount we need to have the supportive Windows 2003 CD ROM driver on that machine which we didn’t had, So now I had Copy all the content to a folder in my machine for that first I used the WinSCP client to copy that iso than mount it using the default mount options which we are getting in Windows 2012 Servers. Copy all the content to your local media or other NTFS drive.
As the machine neither had the CD ROM driver nor has the network connectivity, then I utilized the VMware Edit Virtual Machine Feature, for that.
- First I created a new 10GB drive attached to a Virtual Machine which was on a network and created an NTFS format.
- Second thing I did was to copy those above mention content on that newly created drive and once the copy was successful, I had simply Detached that drive and remember its Data store path.
- Then I went to the last and final step, I click Edit VM settings on my windows 2003 newly migrated from P2V VM and then click “ADD NEW DEVICE” and select the Existing Hard Drive Option, once you select this you will be redirected to Data Store Inventory browsing and there you need to remember that VM name which Data Store It was residing and then look out for the newly created VMDK with the modified “Latest timestamp”.
- Once you attach the drive, get the Web console or VMRC again the choice is totally yours, open the run command and type diskmgmt.msc, Rescan for the disk and once the disk you can see with 10GB browse and run the Setup file, here your VMware tools Installation Wizard will start and will ask for your little inputs, I always prefer the complete installation type at the Wizard Selection as it gives the complete metrics for Swapping and Ballooning which will helpful if you have got the vROPs in your environment.
- Only thing you need to remember that the VM will always as a Warning Stating that “A newer version of VMware Tools is available for this virtual machine.” Even if you try this you’ll still get the same error ” The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.” Reason is stated above. Finally this helped the customer to successfully cut over and migrate the Server to vSphere Environment.
Hope this have been informative for you. See you in the another blog post.
VMware Workstation 5.0
VMware Tools for Windows Guests
VMware Tools for Windows supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 guest operating systems.
The detailed steps for installing VMware Tools depend on the version of Windows you are running. The steps that follow show how to install VMware Tools in a Windows XP guest. Some steps that are automated in newer versions of Windows must be performed manually in Windows 9x and Windows NT.
Note: If you are running VMware Workstation on a Windows host and your virtual machine has only one CD-ROM drive, the CD-ROM drive must be configured as an IDE or SCSI CD-ROM drive. It cannot be configured as a generic SCSI device.
Installing VMware Tools in a Windows Guest Operating System
1. Power on the virtual machine.
2. When the guest operating system starts, select VM > Install VMware Tools.
The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine.
Note: You must log on to a Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or Longhorn guest operating system as an administrator in order to install VMware Tools. Any user can install VMware Tools in a Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me guest operating system.
3. If you have autorun enabled in your guest operating system (the default setting for Windows operating systems), a dialog box appears after a few seconds. It asks if you want to install VMware Tools. Click Yes to launch the InstallShield wizard.
Vmware tools для windows 2003
Guest operating system Windows 2000 and earlier, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and later support VMware Tools.
For Windows 2000 and later, VMware Tools installs a virtual machine upgrade helper tool. This tool restores the network configuration if you upgrade the virtual machine compatibility from ESX/ESXi 3.5 to ESX/ESXi 4.0 and later or from Workstation 5.5 to Workstation 6.0 and later.
Prerequisites
- Power on the virtual machine.
- Verify that the guest operating system is running.
- If you connected the virtual machine’s virtual CD/DVD drive to an ISO image file when you installed the operating system, change the setting so that the virtual CD/DVD drive is configured to autodetect a physical drive.
The autodetect setting enables the virtual machine’s first virtual CD/DVD drive to detect and connect to the VMware Tools ISO file for a VMware Tools installation. This ISO file is detected as a physical CD by your guest operating system. Use the virtual machine settings editor to set the CD/DVD drive to autodetect a physical drive.
Procedure
- On the host, from the Workstation Pro menu bar, select VM > Install VMware Tools .
Results
What to do next
If a new virtual hardware version is available for the virtual machine, upgrade the virtual hardware.
VMWare и Windows Server 2003
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