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-====== VMware Tools ======
-**General Information**
-Installing VMware Tools on Linux.
-**Checklist**
-  * Install completed on CentOS 6.
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-===== 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
-    * <code bash>mkdir /mnt/cdrom</code>
-  - Mount CDROM
-    * <code bash>mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom</code>
-  - Copy Install archive to tmp
-    * <code bash>cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.6.15-2495133.tar.gz /tmp/</code>
-  - Extract
-    * <code bash>tar -xvf VMwareTools-8.6.15-2495133.tar.gz</code>
-  - Install Prereqs
-    * <code bash>yum install perl</code>
-  - Install vmware-tools and answer yes to run the configure script (default)
-    * <code bash>/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl</code>
-    * 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
-    * <code bash>umount /mnt/cdrom</code>
-  - Cleanup tmp files
-    * <code bash>rm /tmp/VMwareTools-* ; rm -rf /tmp/vmware-*</code>
-  - Reboot
-    * <code bash>shutdown -r now</code>
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