Install VMware Tools is greyed out, mount ISO manually
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What to do if VMware Tools do not install in Vmware Workstation because the menu item is disabled? Ultimately, behind the VMware Tools there is only an ISO file, which is located in the VMware program directory. We can also integrate this manually. To do this, we edit the settings and select an ISO image. Depending on the Windows version, we select the appropriate ISO file. ISO files are also available for Linux.