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How do I completely uninstall VMware workstation?

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How do I completely uninstall VMware workstation? 

To fix:
  1. Right click on your start button and select “Command Prompt (Admin)”.
  2. In the command prompt, type “control appwiz.cpl”.
  3. The old style uninstall screen should open, so you can select “VMWare Player” from the list, then at the top, select “Change”
  4. In the pop up window, choose “Uninstall”

How do I remove VMware workstation from Ubuntu terminal? 

Manually uninstalling VMware Workstation from Linux hosts (38)
  1. Open a command prompt.
  2. Shut down all VMware applications and services.
  3. Verify that all processes have stopped:
  4. Move the VMware libraries to the /tmp directory:
  5. Unload the kernel modules:
  6. Remove the VMware startup scripts:

Can I delete VMware workstation? Right click the name of the virtual machine. Select Delete from disk. Click Yes. To free up the space in VMware Workstation, empty the Recycle Bin.

How do I remove VMware tools from Linux virtual machine? 

Select a method to uninstall VMware Tools.

Procedure.

Operating System Action
Linux Log in as root and enter vmware-uninstall-tools.pl in a terminal window.
Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS Use the Uninstall VMware Tools application, found in /Library/Application Support/VMware Tools.

How do I completely uninstall VMware workstation? – Additional Questions

Can not uninstall VMware tools?

In the command prompt, enter the drive letter of the ISO mounted, e.g. D:, and hit Enter. When prompted, allow setup to continue the uninstallation of VMware Tools. After VMware Tools is uninstalled, reboot the virtual machine. This should remove the VMware Tools successfully from the machine.

Does uninstalling VMware tools require reboot?

If you are currently running a version of VMware Tools older than 5.1 on a version of Windows older than Windows Vista, upgrading always requires a reboot. If you are running VMware Tools 5.1 on Windows Vista or newer, you may have to reboot if: One or more components of VMware Tools is installed.

What is the difference between open VM tools and VMware tools?

Open-VM tools (OVT) is an open source implementation of VMware tools. The same as VMware tools, OVT is suite of virtualization utilities which improves the performance, functionality, administration and management of virtual machines (VMs) running within VMware vSphere environment.

How do I run VMware tools in Linux?

To install VMware Tools in a Linux guest operating system using Compiler:
  1. Ensure that your Linux virtual machine is powered on.
  2. If you are running a GUI interface, open a command shell.
  3. Right Click VM in the virtual machine menu, then click Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.
  4. Click OK.
  5. To create a mount point, run:

Where do I find VMware tools?

In the user interface for the VMware product, locate the Install VMware Tools menu item, which is typically found under a Virtual Machine or Guest Operating System menu.

How do I configure Open VM Tools?

Procedure
  1. Go to Manage > System Settings > Advanced Tuning Parameters.
  2. Perform one of the following tasks: If you want to. Do. Enable Open VM Tools support. Set vmtoolsd. enabled to true. Disable Open VM Tools support. Set vmtoolsd. enabled to false.
  3. Reload the page.
  4. Apply the changes to the system.

How do I know if VMware tools is running on Linux?

To check which version of VMware Tools is installed on an x86 Linux VM
  1. Open Terminal.
  2. Enter the following command to display the VMware Tools information in Terminal: vmware-toolbox-cmd -v. If VMware Tools isn’t installed, a message displays to indicate this.

What is VMware tools for Linux?

VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of guests operating systems and seamless user interactions with them. VMware Tools has the ability to: Pass messages from the host operating system to the guest operating system.

What is open-VM-tools used for?

The open-vm-tools-desktop package is optional and includes additional user programs and libraries to improve the interactive functionality of desktop operations of your virtual machines. The package enables you to resize a guest display to match its host console window or the VMware Remote Console Window for vSphere.

What is VM tooling?

VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machines guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionality.

Can you use VMware tools on VirtualBox?

Just boot into your guest. Then, in the VirtualBox menu, under Devices, click Install Guest Additions The same like VMware Tools, this will popup a wizard in your guest. Follow it through, reboot and enjoy.

Is open VM tools running?

You can view the status of the Open VMware Tools service by entering vmtools-service status at the command line. admin@informacast:~$ vmtools-service status vmtoolsd is enabled vmtoolsd is running.

Where is VMware installed Linux?

Linux
Workstation /usr/sbin
Player / ACE Instance /usr/sbin
Workstation Player /usr/sbin
VMware Server /usr/bin
GSX /usr/bin

How do you tell if Vmtools is installed?

If the VMware Tools icon isn’t in the System Tray, VMware Tools isn’t installed. To check which version is installed, right-click the VMware Tools icon and select About VMware Tools. The About VMware Tools dialog displays information about the currently installed version.

How do you check if VMware tools is running?

Verifying a VMware Tools build version (1003947)
  1. From the Console, run the vmware-toolbox command from terminal and click About.
  2. To determine the vmware-tools version, run the command: vmware-toolbox-cmd -v.

What version of VMware am I running?

Log in to the vSphere Web Client. Click Help > About VMware vSphere. The version will be to the right of vSphere Web Client.

What is the current version of VMware tools?

Windows guest drivers installed by VMware Tools
Drivers VMware Tools 12.0.0
pvscsi.sys For Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2: 1.3.15.0 For Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Release 2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022: 1.3.17.0