VMware Tools

Comprehensive overview of the VMware Tools product lifecycle - Releases, last patch, long-term support, maintenance and support

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What is VMware Tools?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

VMware Tools is a set of services and components that enable several features in various VMware products for better management and seamless user interactions with guest operating systems.

The entire lifecycle of VMware Tools

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of VMware Tools. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.

VMware Tools (VMware) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product VMware Tools (VMware)

Facts and figures about VMware Tools

Product

VMware Tools

Vendor

VMware

Latest version

12.5.1.24649672

Number of releases

Number of versions

Number of unstable versions

Number of versions affected by CVE

Licence

Commercial

Last verification date

2025-05-16

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VMware Tools

Comprehensive overview of the VMware Tools product lifecycle - Releases, last patch, long-term support, maintenance and support

What is VMware Tools?

The entire lifecycle of VMware Tools

Facts and figures about VMware Tools

Questions or interested? Talk to me!

VMware Tools

VMware

Agent

Release

Version

Major

Minor

Patch

End-of-life

EOL

Support

End-of-support

EOS

Maintenance

End-of-maintenance

EOM

Security

Long-term support

LTS

Vulnerabilities

Common vulnerabilities & exposures

CVE

Security