Linux kernel version is 3.10 or later, and the version of the installed Open VM Tools is 10.3.0 or later.įor the Linux virtual machines that have Open VM Tools installed but are not in the scope mentioned in the preceding bullet, Install/Update/Reinstall VMware Tools menu is enabled, so that you can install bundled tar tools on top of Open VM Tools to get Shared Folder (HGFS) feature support.įor old Linux virtual machines not supported by Open VM Tools, perform the following steps to install tar tools.Linux kernel version is 4.0 or later, and the version of the installed Open VM Tools is 10.0.0 or later.SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 and later releases.Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later releases.For versions earlier to 16.x see Supported host operating systems for Workstation Pro 12.x, 14.x, 15.x OS Vendor: OS Release: Workstation 16.0. Modern Linux distributions not officially supported by tar tools. This article lists the supported host operating systems for VMware Workstation Pro 16.x, 17.x, and Workstation Player.
Install/Update/Reinstall VMware Tools menu is not available for the following Linux virtual machines: Workstation Pro is 10.3.10 and will not be updated. VMware Tar Tool for Linux virtual machine is feature-frozen at version 10.3.10, so the tar tools (linux.iso) included in
