How to upgrade VMware tools on ClusterLoad ESX or Loadbalancer.org VA
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009VMware tools are based on proprietary modules for the Linux Kernel and therefore need compiling from source to install.
NB. Unless you have a specific reason to upgrade the supplied tools don’t worry about it. Our appliances make heavy use of the 64Bit e1000 network driver which is part of the default kernel, the appliance doesn’t strictly need any of the extra VMware tool functionality.