The required VMWare Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.

Recently I deployed some VMs from an template which I had created some years ago. When I tried to update VMWare Tools I received an error “The required VMWare Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.”

After some digging around in Google I found a thread in VMware forums which also pointed me to a right direction. I had set following advanced option in VM configuration – isolation.tools.autoInstall.disable = TRUE.

To allow VMWare Tools ISO mounting I set the value from TRUE to FALSE.

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