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VMware Tools

General Information

Installing VMware Tools on Linux.

Checklist

  • Install completed on CentOS 6.

CentOS 6 - VMware Tools

  1. Open vSphere Client and navigate to VM
  2. Right click VM ⇒ Guest ⇒ Install VMWare Tools
  3. Login to VM as root
  4. Create mount directory
    • mkdir /mnt/cdrom
  5. Mount CDROM
    • mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
  6. Copy Install archive to tmp
    • cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.6.15-2495133.tar.gz /tmp/
  7. Extract
    • tar -xvf VMwareTools-8.6.15-2495133.tar.gz
  8. Install Prereqs
    • yum install perl
  9. 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)
  10. Un-mount cdrom
    • umount /mnt/cdrom
  11. Cleanup tmp files
    • rm /tmp/VMwareTools-* ; rm -rf /tmp/vmware-*
  12. Reboot
    • shutdown -r now
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