I have an ESXi host that won't install VMWare tools onto any of the VM's and comes up with an error message
•Unable to install VMware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file "/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso" needed to install VMware Tools: 5 (Input/output error). Please refer the product documentation or KB article 2129825 for details about how to get VMware Tools package for this guest operating system.
•vix error code = 21001
I've checked the KB and about to download the VMWare tools bundle for Windows and Linux, but not sure which one to download. The build of ESXi is 4564106 and after checking the one that was bundled with ESXi is 10.0.12. I've downloaded the bundle and seen that it is including Pre-Vista and Pre-2k tools. Should I be using this one or are the tools backwards compatible with this version of ESXi?