Linux kernel version is 3.10 or later, and the version of the installed Open VM Tools is 10.3.0 or later.įor the Linux virtual machines that have Open VM Tools installed but are not in the scope mentioned in the preceding bullet, Install/Update/Reinstall VMware Tools menu is enabled, so that you can install bundled tar tools on top of Open VM Tools to get Shared Folder (HGFS) feature support.įor old Linux virtual machines not supported by Open VM Tools, perform the following steps to install tar tools.

Linux kernel version is 4.0 or later, and the version of the installed Open VM Tools is 10.0.0 or later.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 and later releases.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later releases.

The open-vm-tools suite is bundled with some Linux operating systems and is installed as a part of the OS, eliminating the need to separately install the suite on guest operating systems.

Modern Linux distributions not officially supported by tar tools. Open VM Tools (open-vm-tools) is the open source implementation of VMware Tools for Linux guest operating systems.

Install/Update/Reinstall VMware Tools menu is disabled for the following Linux virtual machines:

Workstation Player is 10.3.10 and will not be updated.

VMware Tar Tool for Linux virtual machine is feature-frozen at version 10.3.10, so the tar tools (linux.iso) included in

Ubuntu vmware tools