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VMware Tools
General Information
Installing VMware Tools on Linux.
Checklist
- Install completed on CentOS 6.
CentOS 6 - VMware Tools
- Open vSphere Client and navigate to VM
- Right click VM ⇒ Guest ⇒ Install VMWare Tools
- Login to VM as root
- Create mount directory
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
- Mount CDROM
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
- Copy Install archive to tmp
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.6.15-2495133.tar.gz /tmp/
- Extract
tar -xvf VMwareTools-8.6.15-2495133.tar.gz
- Install Prereqs
yum install perl
- Install vmware-tools and answer yes to run the configure script (default)
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
- Accept defaults for all directory install locations by pressing enter.
- Accept defaults for features to enable (do not enable features for Fushion or Workstation environments)
- Un-mount cdrom
umount /mnt/cdrom
- Cleanup tmp files
rm /tmp/VMwareTools-* ; rm -rf /tmp/vmware-*
- Reboot
shutdown -r now