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VMware Tools
General Information
Installing VMware Tools on Linux.
CentOS 6 - VMware Tools
Create VMware Tools Repo
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/vmware-tools.repo [vmware-tools] name=VMware Tools baseurl=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.5latest/rhel6/x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1
Import the repo key
rpm --import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
Install
yum install vmware-tools-esx-kmods vmware-tools-esx-nox
CentOS 7 - VMware Tools
VMware tools is available in the CentOS 7 base repo.
Install
yum install open-vm-tools