Vmware Mouse Driver 5 Update 2 will be able to recognize. See full list on x. To open the Mouse item in Control Panel in Microsoft Windows XP, Click Start, click Run, type main. MemCtl VMware memory control driver. Mouse Fix For Macos Macos Unlocker V3 0 For Vmware Esxi Samsung Clx-3180 Scanner Driver For Macos 10. Virtual GPU Software R450 for VMware vSphere RN-07347-001 v11.0 through 11.3 Revision 02 3 NVIDIA vGPU Software Component Releases Compatible Software Releases Guest VM drivers 11.0 through 11.3 NVIDIA vGPU Manager releases 11.0 through 11.3 Incompatible NVIDIA vGPU Manager and Guest VM Driver Releases. 2.3 Updating Drivers Using VMware Offline Bundle Media VMware recommends using the offline bundle to update software on VMware ESXi 6.5 and ESXi 6.7 platforms. NOTE: For more information about the ESXi patch management activities, go to the VMware website. To update a driver using the offline bundle media, perform the following steps: 1.
Updated on: 29 OCT 2020 VMware Tools | 15 OCT 2020 | Build 16938113 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
- This driver provides the same base functionality as the SVGA driver, and it adds Windows Aero support. SCSI driver A VMware Paravirtual SCSI driver is included for use with paravirtual SCSI devices. Drivers for other storage adapters are either bundled with the operating system,.
- Sure, you can download drivers from Areca’s web site, but it doesn’t do you much good when the VMware installation screens never once offer you a chance to install a 3 rd party driver (like Microsoft has done since the NT4 days when you could always hit F6 during installation, and then give it a floppy disk, etc.).
What's in the Release Notes
The release notes cover the following topics:What's New
- Added support for Configuring VMware Time Provider for Windows.
- Added support to Enable Carbon Black Sensor using VMware Tools for Windows.
- The WDDM driver now supports larger cursors drawn by the VMware SVGA device (up to 128x128 pixels from 64x64 pixels) instead of the software. This requires a virtual machine running hardware version 18 or later. For information on the list of products tied with their respective virtual hardware versions , refer to KB 1003746 and KB 1022060.
- Added support to enable WDDM driver distribution on Windows Update.
Note: WDDM driver will be made available through Windows Update service, when the driver publication process completes. - Updated openssl version to 1.1.1g.
- Updated libxml2 version to 2.9.10.
- Updated WDDM, vsepflt, and vnetwfp drivers for fixes and feature support.
- Fixed issues mentioned in Resolved Issues section.
Note:
There are two windows graphics issues that are fixed in the VMware Tools 11.2.1 version. So, windows users who are yet to upgrade to VMware Tools 11.2.0 are recommended to install or upgrade to VMware Tools 11.2.1 version instead.
These issues do not impact non-windows users who have installed VMware Tools 11.2.0 version, and they need not update to VMware Tools 11.2.1 version.
Earlier Releases of VMware Tools
- For earlier releases of VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.
Before You Begin
- VMware Tools 11.2.0 supports the following guest operating systems:
windows.iso supports Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and later.- VMware Tools 11.2.0 depends on and ships Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019.
While preparing the system for VMware Tools 11.2.0 installation, ensure that Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 is installed on the system as a prerequisite. Installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 11.2.0 is not supported for Windows versions that do not meet the prerequisite and customers should continue to use VMware Tools 10.2.x or older until they can patch or update Windows OS to meet the prerequisites for VMware Tools 11.2.0. Refer to Microsoft's update KB2977003 for latest supported Visual C++ downloads. - Windows OS level prerequisites
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft's update KB2919355
- Windows 8.1 with Microsoft's update KB2919355
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows 8
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft's update KB4474419.
- Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft's update KB4474419.
- VMware Tools 11.2.0 depends on and ships Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019.
darwin.isosupports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later.- For details on
linux.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.22 Release Notes. - For details on
solaris.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.10 Release Notes.
- VMware Tools ISO images are frozen for some end of life guest operating systems. Some ISO images are not included with ESXi in the tools-light VIB. For more details, see the VMware Tools Documentation page. All VMware Tools ISO images are available for download from http://my.vmware.com.
- VMware Tools for Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit installer executable (.exe) files are available for download. These files are provided for easier access and installation of VMware Tools in Windows guest operating systems.
Drivers Vmware Others Help
Important note about upgrading to ESXi 6.5 or later Vbrick driver jobs.
Resolution on incompatibility and general guidelines: While upgrading ESXi hosts to ESXi 6.5 or later, and using older versions of Horizon View Agent, refer to the knowledge base articles:
Internationalization
VMware Tools 11.2.0 is available in the following languages:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
Product Support Notice
- The Windows pre-Vista iso image for VMWare Tools is no longer packaged with ESXi. The Windows pre-Vista iso image is available for download by users who require it. For download information, see the Product Download page.
End of Feature Support Notice
- Balloon driver has been removed from MacOS VMware Tools 11.1.0.
- The tar tools (linux.iso) and OSPs shipped with VMware Tools 10.3.x release will continue to be supported. However, releases after VMware Tools 10.3.5 will only include critical and security fixes and no new feature support in these types of VMware Tools (tar tools and OSP's). It is recommended that customers use open-vm-tools for those operating systems that support open-vm-tools. For more information on different types of VMware Tools, see https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/02/understanding-the-three-types-of-vm-tools.html
Nvidia Vmware Drivers
Compatibility Notes
- Starting with VMware Tools version 10.2.0, Perl script-based VMware Tools installation for FreeBSD has been discontinued. FreeBSD systems are supported only through the open-vm-tools packages directly available from FreeBSD package repositories. FreeBSD packages for open-vm-tools 10.1.0 and later are available from FreeBSD package repositories.
Guest Operating System Customization Support
The Guest OS Customization Support Matrix provides details about the guest operating systems supported for customization.
Interoperability Matrix
The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware Products.
Installation and Upgrades for this release
VMware Tools can be downloaded from the Product Download page.
The steps to install VMware Tools vary depending on your VMware product and the guest operating system you have installed. For general steps to install VMware Tools in most VMware products, see General VMware Tools installation instructions (1014294).To set up productLocker to point to the shared datastore, see KB 2004018.
For specific instructions to install, upgrade, and configure VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.
Windows guest drivers installed by VMware Tools
VMware Tools 11.2.0 supports the following driver versions on a Windows Guest Operating System.
| Drivers | VMware Tools 11.2.0 |
| Hardware Drivers | |
| vmci | 9.8.16.0 |
| vsock | 9.8.17.0 |
| pvscsi | 1.3.15.0 |
| wddm | 8.17.02.0001 |
| vmxnet3 | 1.8.16.0 |
| vmxnet2 | 2.2.0.0 |
| vmmouse | 12.5.10.0 |
| vmusbmouse | 12.5.10.0 |
| vmaudio | 5.10.0.3506 |
| efifw | 1.0.0.0 |
| Software Drivers | |
| vmrawdsk.sys | 1.1.5.0 |
| vmmemctl.sys | 7.5.5.0 |
| vmhgfs.sys | 11.0.42.0 |
| vsepflt.sys | 11.2.0.0 |
| vnetWFP.sys | 11.2.0.0 |
| glgxi.sys | 2.3.0.0 |
| giappdef | 2.3.1.0 |
| Security DLL | |
| vmwsu.dll | Wm320 Wireless Data Device Port Devices driver. 2.5.0.0 |
Resolved Issues
- After VMware Tools is upgraded from 10.1.5 version to 11.1.0 version, getting BSOD with '0x139_3_CORRUPT_LIST_ENTRY_vsepflt' for some VMs.
When vspepflt driver is installed in an NSX environment, guest VMs crash just after reboot. Guest VMs get BSOD error just after driver loads while it connects to AV solution.
This issue is fixed in this release.
- In open-vm-tools (Linux only), a memory leak occurs in disk device mapping information for IDE, SATA or SAS (LSI Logic SAS) disks configured in the guest.
Due to this issue, the memory usage of vmtoolsd system service gradually increases, which may impact system performance. This problem does not occur when mapping SCSI or NVMe devices.
This issue is fixed in this release.
Known Issues
The known issues are grouped as follows.
VMware Tools Issues- After upgrading to a new version VMware Tools with installer parameter to remove the NetworkIntrospection feature, old version of vnetflt or vnetWFP driver service still runs.
After the upgrade, the NetworkIntrospection feature is not present in the system's VMware Tools MSI database, but the feature's vnetflt or vnetWFP driver service still exists.
Workaround:
Refer to KB 78016.
Note: Future tools upgrade from version 11.1.0 to a newer tools version will not have the issue.
- VMware Tools upgrade fails on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 without SHA-2 code signing support.
Microsoft has changed Windows driver signing to use SHA-2 algorithm exclusively starting December 3, 2019. Hence, legacy Windows systems without SHA-2 code signing support fails driver signature verification.
Workaround:
Refer to KB 78708.
- AppDefense driver glxgi logs an error in the event viewer.
AppDefense driver glxgi logs an error in the event viewer similar to the following:
'The glxgi service failed to start due to the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning.'
The events are observed when Guest Integrity is disabled.
Workaround:
These events do not impact the system and are safe to ignore.
- Installing or upgrading versions earlier than VMware Tools 10.3.0 to VMware Tools 11.1.x might take longer and Windows OS might need a restart.
Installation process might appear to be in progress and displays a message similar to the following:
'Preparing 'VMware Tools' for installation..'During this process, the user might be prompted to restart the operating system.
For more information, see KB 55798.
- Shared Folders mount is unavailable on Linux VM.
If the Shared Folders feature is enabled on a Linux VM while it is powered off, shared folders mount is not available on restart.
Note: This issue is applicable for VMware Tools running on Workstation and Fusion.
Workaround:
If the VM is powered on, disable and enable the Shared Folders feature from the interface.
For resolving the issue permanently, edit /etc/fstab and add an entry to mount the Shared Folders automatically on boot.
For example, add the line:
vmhgfs-fuse /mnt/hgfs fuse defaults,allow_other 0 0 - Drag functionality fails to work in Ubuntu.
Drag functionality fails to work in Ubuntu 16.04.4 32-bit virtual machine installed using easy install. Also, failure of copy and paste functionality is observed in the same system.
Note: This issue is applicable for VMware Tools running on Workstation and Fusion.
Workaround:
- Add the modprobe.blacklist=vmwgfx linux kernel boot option.
- To gain access to larger resolutions, remove svga.guestBackedPrimaryAware = 'TRUE' option from the VMX file.
- WDDM driver fails on Windows Update installation when Horizon Agent is installed on W8/8.1/WS2008R2.
When Horizon Agent is installed on W8/8.1/WS2008R2, WDDM driver fails on Windows Update installation.
WDDM driver will be made available through Windows Update service, when the driver publication process completes.
Sis drivers download. This page describes how to build, install and use theVMware guest GL driver(aka the SVGA or SVGA3D driver) for Linux using the latest source code.This driver gives a Linux virtual machine access to the host's GPU forhardware-accelerated 3D.VMware Workstation running on Linux or Windows and VMware Fusion running onMacOS are all supported.
With the August 2015 Workstation 12 / Fusion 8 releases, OpenGL 3.3is supported in the guest.This requires:
- The VM is configured for virtual hardware version 12.
- The host OS, GPU and graphics driver supports DX11 (Windows) or OpenGL 4.0 (Linux, Mac)
- On Linux, the vmwgfx kernel module must be version 2.9.0 or later.
- A recent version of Mesa with the updated svga gallium driver.
Otherwise, OpenGL 2.1 is supported.
OpenGL 3.3 support can be disabled by setting the environment variableSVGA_VGPU10=0.You will then have OpenGL 2.1 support.This may be useful to work around application bugs (such as incorrect useof the OpenGL 3.x core profile).
Most modern Linux distros include the SVGA3D driver so end users shouldn'tbe concerned with this information.But if your distro lacks the driver or you want to update to the latest codethese instructions explain what to do.
For more information about the X components see these wiki pages at x.org:
Components
The components involved in this include:- Linux kernel module: vmwgfx
- X server 2D driver: xf86-video-vmware
- User-space libdrm library
- Mesa/gallium OpenGL driver: 'svga'
Vmware Drivers Mdt
All of these components reside in the guest Linux virtual machine.On the host, all you're doing is running VMwareWorkstation orFusion.
Prerequisites
- Kernel version at least 2.6.25
- Xserver version at least 1.7
- Ubuntu: For ubuntu you need to install a number of build dependencies.
- Fedora: For Fedora you also need to install a number of build dependencies.
Depending on your Linux distro, other packages may be needed.The configure scripts should tell you what's missing.
Getting the Latest Source Code
Begin by saving your current directory location:- Mesa/Gallium master branch. This code is used to build libGL, and the direct rendering svga driver for libGL, vmwgfx_dri.so, and the X acceleration library libxatracker.so.x.x.x.
- VMware Linux guest kernel module. Note that this repo contains the complete DRM and TTM code. The vmware-specific driver is really only the files prefixed with vmwgfx.
- libdrm, a user-space library that interfaces with drm.Most distros ship with this but it's safest to install a newer version.To get the latest code from git:
- xf86-video-vmware. The chainloading driver, vmware_drv.so, the legacy driver vmwlegacy_drv.so, and the vmwgfx driver vmwgfx_drv.so.
Building the Code
- Determine where the GL-related libraries reside on your system and setthe LIBDIR environment variable accordingly.
For 32-bit Ubuntu systems:For 64-bit Ubuntu systems:For 32-bit Fedora systems:For 64-bit Fedora systems: - Build libdrm:
- Build Mesa and the vmwgfx_dri.so driver, the vmwgfx_drv.so xorg driver, the X acceleration library libxatracker.The vmwgfx_dri.so is used by the OpenGL libraries during direct rendering,and by the Xorg server during accelerated indirect GL rendering.The libxatracker library is used exclusively by the X server to do render,copy and video acceleration:
The following configure options doesn't build the EGL system. Note that you may have to install other packages that Mesa depends uponif they're not installed in your system. You should be told what's missing. - xf86-video-vmware: Now, once libxatracker is installed, we proceed withbuilding and replacing the current Xorg driver.First check if your system is 32- or 64-bit.
- vmwgfx kernel module. First make sure that any old version of this kernel module is removed from the system by issuingBuild and install:If you're using a Ubuntu OS:If you're using a Fedora OS:Add 'vmwgfx' to the /etc/modules file:Note: some distros put DRM kernel drivers in different directories.For example, sometimes vmwgfx.ko might be found in
/lib/modules/{version}/extra/vmwgfx.koor in/lib/modules/{version}/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx.ko.After installing vmwgfx.ko you might want to run the following command tocheck that the new kernel module is in the expected place:If you see the kernel module listed in more than one place, you may need tomove things around.
Finally, if you update your kernel you'll probably have to rebuild andreinstall the vmwgfx.ko module again.
Then restart the Xserver (or reboot).The lines starting with 'vmwlegacy' or 'VMWARE' in the file /var/log/Xorg.0.logshould now have been replaced with lines starting with 'vmwgfx', indicating thatthe new Xorg driver is in use.
Running OpenGL Programs
In a shell, run 'glxinfo' and look for the following to verify that thedriver is working:
If you don't see this, try setting this environment variable:
then rerun glxinfo and examine the output for error messages.
If OpenGL 3.3 is not working (you only get OpenGL 2.1):
- Make sure the VM uses hardware version 12.
- Make sure the vmwgfx kernel module is version 2.9.0 or later.
- Check the vmware.log file for errors.
- Run 'dmesg | grep vmwgfx' and look for 'DX: yes'.