While preparing a Windows guest for installation, VMware Tools runs the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package installer which checks for the presence of a more recent version on the guest.
Installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 11.3.0 is not supported for Windows versions that do not meet the prerequisite.If the guest has a more recent version already present, the package does not install.įor a 32-bit Windows guest, the prerequisite version is Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) version 3.0.įor a 64-bit Windows guest, the prerequisite versions are Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) version 3.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (圆4) version 3.0.
