Monday, February 3, 2014

Installing VMWare tools on CentOS 6.4

It’s always good to have concise steps. Here’s one from the VMWare forums:


http://ift.tt/1nJWuWp


(worked in CentOS 6.4)

1.In Sphere Client: Guest > Install/update VMware Tools

2. On the VM console in command line, being a server I do not have a GUI installed:

3. mkdir /cdrom, or anyother mount point you like

4. mount the vitural cdrom from step 1; mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom

5. cd /tmp

6. tar -xvf /cdrom/VMwareTools (tab to auto-complete)

7. cd vmware-tools-distrib (tab to auto-complete)

8. ./vmware-install.pl; accept defaults, you might have to install pearl as well – just a bunch of hitting “enter”

9. umount /cdrom

10. In Vsphere Client: Guest > Install/upVMware Tools > OK

11. To confirm the install; in the client > VM Summary tab and look for OK next to VMWare Tools





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