For a 2012 R2 server you want Win8 so delete the Vista folder from both vmxnet3 and pvscsi. Under each of the folders there are two folder options, Vista and Win8. If you now browse to the folder you extracted into go to C:\Temp\Extract\VMware.VMware and you will see the folders pvscsi and vmxnet3 which have the drivers we want. Run through the wizard and at the Network Location screen choose the folder you want to extract VMware Tools to: The /A performs and administrative install which basically extracts everything to a folder of your choice. Open a command prompt and browse to the downloaded exe file. We can now extract the tools to get the drivers. From there download VMware Tools for Windows, 64-bit in-guest installer. You can get them from (VMware login account required). It’s recommended to always use the latest versions that are part of VMware Tools. First of all you will need a copy of the drivers.
#Updating vmware tools for windows server 2012 how to#
Let’s see how to inject the drivers so you can have full capability from the start. Also you do this once instead of having to do the floppy drive method every time you build a VM.
You can add a floppy drive and then point towards the driver but I like to keep my VM’s clean and remove all legacy hardware such as the floppy drive. During the OS install you are not able to see the disk as there is no driver for the SCSI adapter: The vmxnet3 driver is installed when VMware Tools is installed in the Guest OS but this means you are without network connectivity until it’s installed. Unfortunately the standard 2012 R2 ISO image does not have these drivers installed. I build my VM’s with the VMware VMXNET3 NIC and the PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI driver to get the best performance possible from them. Adding VMware Drivers to Server 2012 R2 Boot Media