P.S.: Sometimes software companies try to test whether their end users are intelligent or not by making their lives miserable and sending them in wild goose chase. The vmware tools exe was seen inside the guest os and installation was as usual. Mounted the *.iso file to cd/dvd drive in the vmware console. These packages support the following operating systems: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and later Registered my name and downloaded vmware tools separately. Then after much research found this page: I had the same problem in Vmware Workstation pro 16. Hopefully, this helped you fix your installation just as it did for me. If this doesn't work, you can try to manually download the VMWare Tools ISO, mount it in a virtual drive and install it. You will also see a new tab at the bottom of the screen prompting you to install the tools. Click on it to begin the VMware installation. The option to install VMware tools should no longer be grayed out. Once it has booted to the desktop, click on the menu at the top left corner and go to "Player > Manage > Install VMWare Tools".Click on "OK" to close the window, and Start the VM as usual.(Previously, it had the Windows ISO selected) The primary focus of this book is on VMware Horizon View itself, and those components of VMware Horizon that are most commonly used to extend its capabilities and potential use cases. The right pane should now have the option "Use Physical Drive > Auto Detect" enabled. When listing the different components included with each VMware Horizon license level, you may have noticed that not all of them will be discussed in this book. Click on the "Add button" and select "CD/DVD" Drive and select finish.(Technically optional, but this is what fixed it for me. Repeat the above step to remove the Floppy Drive.Highlight the CD/Drive on the left sidebar under the Hardware tab and click on the remove button.Select the "Settings" option to edit the hardware settings.Open VMWare Workstation Player and right-click on the VM.How to install/reinstall VMWare tools grayed out Even though I was doing this for Windows 10, this isn’t limited to Windows installations and should work regardless of the virtual operating system. though I consider it quite rude for an application to write to another application's plist file that way, I don't see a realistic way that this specific instance harms your system.For anyone facing this same issue with their VMware installation, here’s the solution in a pleasing format. One of the files in that list is highly unusual for an application to read, and it's reading it in this case because it's written something there already.Īnd just to be doubly clear about this particular case. Select "Reads/Writes" and, if necessary add a filter string at the bottom to narrow down the files you see. Launch instruments and select the File Activity template.Ĭhoose the executable you want to monitor and accept the default settings.Ĭlick the red "Record" button to launch the application and monitor its activity. I'll show you how to see just what an app is doing to your files, because this is an important skill IMO. I certainly won't be installing it again. I highly doubt that anybody here has the intention to use such information to extend their trial periods indefinitely. I don't think it's unethical to just show what the heck the app is doing. So it's storing that info somewhere else.and what's even odder is that I used an app uninstaller to delete it, so whatever file it left behind wasn't detected by them. Incidentally, deleting AppDelete's plist file doesn't reset the trial. In principle you might sleuth this out using lsof to see which files are touched while AppDelete starts up. In other words, a file which looks "official" and won't interfere with system functionality, but only AppDelete knows the name and location. It might be stored in something tricky like ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata/C433D242-DB05-4894-A387-EC5B1B62A540/ABPerson In which case you may never find the file where this data is stored. That being said, the forever war of scummy users vs scummy developers results in this data being written into odd places with unpredictable names. Well behaved apps which trust their potential customers will store this information in a plist in ~/Library/Preferences.ĪppDelete, for example, might store this info in the file:
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