

The VMware Tools allows you to configure a number of settings that will make your guest operating system more suitable for usage in a virtual machine. The guest operating system can work without VMware Tools, but you would be missing out on useful features and conveniences. VMware Tools is a collection of tools that improves the operation of virtual machines and the performance of the guest operating system. VMware has developed additional software, named VMware Tools, to assist in speeding up the operating system in order to address these issues. The first one has to do with the virtual disk, while the second one is about the graphic display.

Even if you install it on a Linux or Windows device, there are two main causes that will cause the same problem. darwinPre15.One of the problems with using macOS on virtual machines is that it is very slow. darwin.iso is located in the "payload" folder Instructions for extracting darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso The various VMware Tools downloads are located under the packages folder for each version upto and including 11.1.0. Please note: In the latest VMwareGfx.kext from Fusion 8.5.5 onwards VMware have discontinued the 2D-Acceleration code, and graphics performance is better now, thanks to Zenith432 for the update.

If you prefer to download the "core" tar file and extract the ISO's they are located in the following directory in the tar file:Ĭom.\\payload\VMware Fusion.app\Contents\Library\isoimages\ However, I have extracted the darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso from the "core" and uploaded to this thread.

It is not possible to download the .tar due to upload limits. VMware are no longer including the ISO images as separate "packages" in the CDS respository as of Fusion 11.5.0, instead the ISO images are included as part of the "core" download which is 522 MB. This is the current version of VMware Tools for OS X / macOS from the VMware CDS repository for Fusion 11.5.0
