Cannot end VMware Tools installation after upgrading to VMware ESXi 5.x

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To work around this issue

• On a windows machine: Shut down the virtual machine and then power it on after ensuring that the ISO is disconnected.
• On a Linux virtual machine:

1. 
   
   1. Open a pop-out console to the virtual machine.
   2. Mount a local ISO from the workstations local drive.
   3. In SSH to the virtual machine that has the issue run these commands:
      
      mkdir /mnt/cdrom
      mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
      eject -v /dev/cdrom
      
      Note: Ensure to not use SCSI eject. To confirm that it did not use a SCSI eject command, you should see this message:
      
      eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded
      
      vMotion the virtual machine, if it still fails proceed to step 4
      
      
   4. From the pop-out console, mount the linux.iso for VMware Tools.
   5. If needed, copy and extract the install TAR to /tmp.

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