Hey ! Good news!
After your post regarding a reboot, I decided to look into another issue I noted on vsphere, where it was stating that the VMWARE tools service wasn’t running, despite the drivers being installed on the shell. Sure enough, I checked, and the “VMWARE Tools” window service is not installed, even after a 2nd reboot!
Checking vmware forums/reddit etc, this is known issue going back years. The fix is to run an un-install/re-install manually or use a script that re-installs vmware tools when it fails to install cleanly the first time
This one for instance will do it:
The above script has one prompt for the un-install piece, i’ll post something to my own GIT HUB soon that handles the vmware tools uninstall to make the entire process seamless
My build is now complete, and i’m a very happy camper!