you use the darwin file to install VMware Tools on macOS High Sierra 10.13.5. It seems VMware Tools newer than 8.5.3 are optimized for Metal graphics acceleration (upgrade to Fusion 10 or newer without reinstalling the tools), OS X or macOS 10.11.x or newer and VMware Fusion 10.x.x, the first version which supports Metal graphics acceleration on OS X or macOS hosts. To install macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 on a virtual machine using VMware. Then, click CD/DVD Drive 1/ Datastore to add the darwin.iso file to the VM. Power off the macOS VM and click Edit to open the virtual machine’s settings. To setup VMware Tools on VMware ESXi, follow the steps below in order. Addeddate 18:56:20 Identifier darwin202204 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6. How to Setup VMware Tools for macOS High Sierra 10.13.4/5/6 on vSphere 6.7U2/6.5. Because the VMware Tools 8.5.3 do not depend on newer APIs they require only OS X or macOS 10.5.x or newer. Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics VMware Tools Language English if i'm missing some iso, i would Update it. The 2D graphics performance is now much better than with newer VMware Tools. I uninstalled the VMware Tools newer than 8.5.3 (8.5.10 at the moment ) and reinstalled VMware Tools 8.5.3 in the guest OS. You can download the 8.5.3 VMware Tools '.' from The GUI (Finder & windowserver) of the guest OS is slow as hell!

The performance without the 2D acceleration code is not better on a El Capitan host and a High Sierra guest OS.

Thanks for this information Zenith432! :-) In the latest VMwareGfx.kext from Fusion 8.5.5 VMware have discontinued the 2D-Acceleration code, and graphics performance is better now.

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