How to Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-V Server

Nested Hypervisor is very famous and common among cloud administrators to learn and evaluate new technology. Procuring hardware for evaluating hypervisor is not really needed in this situation. Nested Hypervisor is the cheap and best option for learning. With Nested hypervisors, we will be able to test most of the features of the technology. In my previous post, we have understood “Running Nested Hyper-V Server 2016 on VMware vSphere “. For better performance, better user experience and also to enable the functionality of Virtual hardware, you need to install VMware Tools on your Nested Hyper-V Server 2016 running on VMware vSphere. In this article, we will take a look at how to install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-V Server.

Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-V Server

In your Hyper-V Virtual machine running on VMware vSphere, Right-Click -> Guest-> Install/Upgrade VMware Tools

Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-V Server

Click on OK to get the VMware Tools ISO package to get the mount in your Hyper-server CD\Drive. Installing the VMware tools package will greatly enhance graphics and mouse performance in your virtual machine.

Login to your Hyper-V Server, Open Command Prompt and type “diskpart“. Type “list volume” to read the drive letter of CD\DVD drive where VMware Tools ISO is mounted. Note down the Drive letter and Type “Exit” to exit from diskpart command-line utility.

Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-V Server

In the command prompt, Switch to the CD\DVD ROM drive and type “dir” to list the contents of the VM Tools ISO image. If your OS is 64-bit, then “Setup64.exe” is the VMware tools package for your OS.

Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-V Server

Type “Setup64.exe” to the installation of VM tools.

In the command prompt, Switch to the CD\DVD ROM drive and type “dir” to list the contents of the VM Tools ISO image. If your OS is 64-bit, then “Setup64.exe” is the VMware tools package for your OS.

Click on “Next” to start the VM Tools installation wizard.

.Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-v

Select “Typical” in the setup type. Typical option installs the program features used by this VMware Product only. Select this option, if you intend to run this virtual machine only with this VMware Product. Click on Next.

Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-v

Click on Install to start the installation of VM tools on the Hyper-V Server 2016.

Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-v

The installer will install all the required drivers and software. It will take a few seconds to minutes to complete the installer.

Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-v

Click on Finish to complete the VM tools installation on nested Hyper-V server 2016

You must restart your system for the configuration changes made to VMware Tools to take effect. Click Yes to restart now or No if you plan to manually restart later.

Install VMware Tools on Nested Hyper-v

That’s it. We are done with the installation of VMware Tools on the Nested Hyper-V Server 2016. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading!!!. Be social and share it on social media, if you feel worth sharing it.