<p>After upgrading Windows 2012 server to Windows 2019 I tried reinstalling VMware tools because prior to the upgrade I had to uninstall the video driver from the VM.</p>
<p>When you run the upgrade you might notice that vc_runtimeMinimum_x86.msi is missing for the VMware tools upgrade.</p>
<p><strong>Microsoft Visual C+&#8217; 2022 X86 Minimum Runtime &#8211; 14.32.31326</strong><br />
<strong>The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.</strong><br />
<strong>Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package &#8216;vc_runtimeMinimum_x86.msi&#8217;</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-4922 size-full" title="vc_runtimeMinimum_x86.msi is missing" src="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/vc_runtimeminimum_x86.png" alt="" width="718" height="487" /></p>
<p>I tried downloading and installing the Microsoft Visual C++ package but received the same prompt.</p>
<p>So in order to solve this, you&#8217;ll have to navigate to the following path on another server that has the required &#8216;vc_runtimeMinimum_x86.msi&#8217; package:</p>
<p>C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\</p>
<p>On this path, you will find the following folders:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-4926 size-full" title="vc_runtimeMinimum_x86.msi is missing" src="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cache-folders.png" alt="" width="547" height="222" /></p>
<p>To be sure, copy all of the above folders to the C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\ folder because you&#8217;ll require files from 2 folders, but I can&#8217;t remember which ones :)</p>
<p>Run the VMware tools updater again and you shouldn&#8217;t get this prompt again. If you do then select the folders that have the required .msi files.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>