Installing VMware Tools on Server Core 2008
October 31st, 2008
The lack of a GUI tends to make simple tasks that little bit harder, ie installing VMware tools.
Start the install as per normal by clicking on Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. You’ll find that nothing will happen, well not quite you now have a cdrom (d:\).
In the command prompt execute the following, obviously replacing d:\ with what ever drive letter was mapped.
msiexec.exe /i “d:\VMware Tools.msi” /qn
Once installed the server will reboot.