Install the VMware Tools using all defaults, unless you have a reason to change them.
**UPDATE – How to setup in VMware Workstation 8** When I was at Dell earlier this week, I pointed out this post on how to install Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V in a VM on ESXi. These KB's must be installed in the following order: clearcompressionflag.exe, KB2919355, … Prepare the VMware Guest VM. If the DVD does not contain this edition, setup will inform you and the install will not … go to manage. Enable 3D graphics or do not install VMware’s WDDM video driver. It should work great for you and if not then let me know. When I select the VM and click Summary, I see VMware Tools: Not running, version:0 (Unsupported older version). After running this script, virtual machine(s) must be vMotioned or shut down and powered on for the changes to take effect. These KB's must be installed in the following order: clearcompressionflag.exe, KB2919355, … 2. Launch Windows Setup ( setup.exe) from the install media to perform an upgrade in unattended mode. This multiple packages of VMware tools are necessary because VMware supports many guest operating systems. Windows Server Core is an installation option for Windows Server 2012 R2.
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash. I also created a fresh Windows 7 VM (hardware 11) with tools 10.0.5 and I cannot clone with customization from that template either. VMware Tools Service running as vmusr crashes on Linux systems which are not running on the VMware platform. In the tab “Visual effects” you see an option “Show shadows under mouse pointer”.