vmware workstation tools mountain lion mac OS x

Question

I installed Mountain Lion and then I tried to run and then got this error:

The virtual machine cannot enter Unity mode because:
- The guest operating system does not have VMware Tools installed.
- The guest operating system's resolution cannot be changed.

Then I try to update tools:

Could not find component on update server.
Contact VMware Support or your system administrator.

Pernicious

Answer 1

Arkadi's answer is right, here are the detailed actions:

(See also this post for more snapshots)

• Download darwin.iso.
• Right click your virtual machine in vmware
• Click the settings menu item
• Select CD/DVD item in the left UI
• On the right UI, select and mount the darwin.iso.

Now, the vmware tools installation is started in your Mac OSX virtual machine:

Puglia

i still get the "The guest operating system's resolution cannot be changed." error message after i installed darwin.iso and latest VMsvga2 driver. I have VMWare 10.1 and Mac OS X 10.9. Do you have any further suggestions what can be done here?.. – Ransell

Answer 2

You can download VMWare Tools and graphic driver from here:

• VMware_Tools
• Graphic Driver - VMsvga2

Thaine

Some background info, those links came from this link – Concord

Check the answers below before you try this! – Responsive

Answer 3

The links supplied in Boris M answer points to software that is outdated and opens ad-ware sites in browser after install.

Here are the official darwin.iso (9MB) and darwin.iso.sig files from VMware Fusion 6.0.4 for Mac. Put it into vmware/isoimages/ folder next to other ISO files.

Unfortunately, VM > Install VMware Tools menu entry still won't work, so attach the ISO manually and install the package.

Forgave

Again, taking stuff from dropbox is slightly weird to me, here's a Github repo that is updated frequently with everything you need to install VMware with a OSX guest, including the vmware-tools. Upon running the gettools.py python script, you'll have a tools/ directory with darwin.iso. This script pulls the latest official vmware darwin.iso image. – Candra