

It was founded in 1998, and then developed multiple solutions in the field of virtualization technologies. As a result, you can do your work on the virtual machine without putting an extra load on your computer. Therefore, you can use the Linux / Ubuntu operating system on a virtual machine by installing the VMware software on your computer. However, you will have to restart your computer to switch between operating systems. VMware recommended to keep the VMware tools update to date to avoid VM crash.Let’s give a good example of what VMware does you have a Windows 10 operating system that you are using and you want to install a Linux based Ubuntu, you can install a Linux operating system with DUAL-BOOT. You can download the files and install the VMtools in few minutes. Select the OS architectureĤ.You can get the repodata file for redhat Linux since its support YUM.For windows ,you will get single EXE file. If it is 64 bit operating system, then select X86_64 and 32-bit operating system choose i386 or x86. Supported Guest operating systemsģ.Navigate to the Guest operating system architecture. Select the ESXi version hereĢ.Here you have all the ESXi 5.5 update 1 supported guest operating systems directory.Here i have just highlighted redhat Linux supported version on VMware ESXi 5.5 u1.Select the Guest opeating system type and version here.

Just scroll down and select if you are using ESXi 5.5 update 1.

Here i would like to share some of the screen to select the correct VMware guest tools for specific ESXi version.ġ.Open the browser and select the appropriate ESXi version. VMware Offers to download the Guest operating system’s VMware tools on portal VMware tools is very important element to work guest operating systems properly without any performance issue. In most of the organization ,there will be a dedicated VMware support team and where the guest operating will be managed by windows or Linux/Solaris team according the operating system model.In these kind of support model, you need VMware team help to attach the VMware tools ISO on the guest operating system to install the VMware tools. Here we will see how to download the VMware tools manually from VMware website.
