To find out about the prerequisites required for installing the VMware Tools of VMware Workstation 16 on Windows 7, simply consult the informations regarding VMware Tools 11.1.5.Īs you can check on the VMware site, you will see that this new version of VMware Tools requires Windows 7 SP1 with the KB4474419 update. Except that this algorithm is not supported by default by Windows 7. This is because VMware has updated the certificates used to sign these drivers using the SHA-2 encryption algorithm. Then, you will get a 'Windows can't verify the publisher of this driver software' error.

VSock Virtual Machine Communication Interface Sockets driver.

To begin, warnings will be displayed regarding the installation : Warnings displayed when installing VMware Tools on Windows 7

Warnings displayed when installing VMware Tools on Windows 7ġ.

However, since VMware Workstation 16, some warnings and an error occur if the guest OS is not up to date.

Previously, when you installed Windows 7 SP1 as a guest OS, you could install VMware Tools without problem.

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