The musings of an IT Consultant » VMWare tools http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant Wed, 01 May 2013 01:19:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 VMWare Tools in Windows Server 2008 Core http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/vmware-tools-in-windows-server-2008-core/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/vmware-tools-in-windows-server-2008-core/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:54:56 +0000 Raj Perumal http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/vmware-tools-in-windows-server-2008-core/ Hi folks, if you have ever used VMWare before, then you will be familiar with the VMWare Tools. This is a set of tools you can install into a guest os in VMWare to allow better functionality with your virtual machine. However this is a graphical install and it isn’t exactly clear how to run VMWare Tools if you have installed Windows Server 2008 in Core mode in your virtual environment.

Just recently I ran into this problem while running some testing and was able to do it by choosing to install VMWare tools first and then changing drive letters to the d:. Then I ran the setup.exe file to start the VMWare Tools installer.

This started the VMWare Tools gui. However this throws a DLL error on the screen. Just go to task manager during the install and kill the rundll process. Then click past any errors and the install should finish without a hitch. I used the “typical” install mode.

Then reboot the virtual machine and when the server comes back up you should have a working guest os with Windows Server 2008 Core and VMWare Tools installed!

-RP

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