During these months vmware released new Vmware Tools version that are no longer strictly linked to Vmware ESX(i) version that you have installed. here is relative link that contain all versions. http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html Due to fact that vmware tools are no longer sctricly constrained to ESX(i) version you can give a look to this tutorial that explain how to proceed to deploy them: