An administrator is performing a silent automatic update of VMware Tools on a Windows virtual machine. What syntax needs to be entered into the Advanced Options box?

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A. /s /v "/qn" /l "c:\Windows\filename.log" The /s flag suppresses the outer setup wrapper UI, /v passes the enclosed arguments directly to the underlying MSI package, and /qn instructs the Windows Installer to run in fully quiet mode with no interface. The /l flag followed by a path writes installation events to a log file, which is the standard MSI-based silent install pattern used by VMware Tools on Windows guests.

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B. --prefix=/usr/local,/usr/lib,/usr/doc --silent This uses Linux-style --prefix and --silent arguments, which are only applicable to VMware Tools installation on Linux guests, not Windows.

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C. --prefix=c:\Windows,c:\VMtools --silent This incorrectly mixes Windows file paths with Linux-style double-dash arguments, which is not valid syntax for the Windows VMware Tools installer.

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D. /fs /v "/qn+" /l "c:\Windows\filename.log" The /fs flag does not exist in the VMware Tools Windows installer; the correct flag to suppress the setup wrapper UI is /s, not /fs.

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