Verifying a VMware Tools build version

To determine the VMware Tool version:

• Windows:  

• From the Console or an remote desktop session, open VMware Tools from the Task Bar and click About. 
• From the directory located at C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\, run the command:
  
  VMwareToolboxCmd.exe -v

•  Linux:

• From the Console, run the vmware-toolbox command from terminal and click About.
• To determine the vmware-tools version, run the command:
  
  vmware-toolbox-cmd -v

 

Note: The Tools version can also be accessed from the ESXi/ESX command line by running the command:

 

grep toolbox /vmfs/volumes/datastore/vm_name/vmware.log

 

 An alternative command to verify the tools version on an ESX/ESXi host is:

 

grep build- /vmfs/volumes/datastore/vm_name/vmware.log