You must perform a custom installation and include that component. The vShield component is not installed by default.

If you use vSphere and plan to install the vShield Endpoint Thin Agent driver, see the system requirements listed in the vShield Quick Start Guide.For operating systems newer than these, you must log in as an administrator. Any user can install VMware Tools in a Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me guest operating system. Log in as an administrator unless you are using an older Windows operating system.

Use the virtual machine settings editor to set the CD/DVD drive to autodetect a physical drive. Now select Windows 95 ISO image and accept default settings. Download Windows 95 ISO image from download section (above on top of this page) Launch VMware and begin creating a new virtual machine. If you are using VMware® Workstation 3.x, VMware GSX Server 2.x, VMware ESX Server 1. This ISO file looks like a physical CD to your guest operating system. First of all, download VMware (if you are doing not have it already). The autodetect setting enables the virtual machine's first virtual CD/DVD drive to detect and connect to the VMware Tools ISO file for a VMware Tools installation.

For VMware Player, Fusion, and Workstation virtual machines, if you connected the virtual machine’s virtual CD/DVD drive to an ISO image file when you installed the operating system, change the setting so that the virtual CD/DVD drive is configured to autodetect a physical drive. To install Windows 95 into a virtual machine: On the VMware ESX Server host, insert the Windows 95 CD-ROM Setup Boot Disk in floppy drive A: and insert the Windows 95 CD in the the CD-ROM drive.

For vSphere virtual machines, to determine whether you have the latest version of VMware Tools, in the vSphere Client inventory, select the virtual machine and click the Summary tab.

Verify that the guest operating system is running.

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