[Tutorial] How-to install VMTools on CentOS 6

Here is a quick tutorial on how to get VMware Tools up and running on a CentOS 6 Linux machine.  Although the instructions are shown with the GUI, we'll use terminal so the guide works with both gui and non-gui based installs.

  1. Mount the VM tools installer to your VM
    Install-Upgrade VMware Tools
  2. Open up Terminal
    CentOS6 - Terminal
  3. Execute the following command (this will create a mount point for our CD drive)
    1. mkdir /cdrom
      CentOS6 - VMware Tools - New Mount Point
  4. Execute the following command (this will map the CD drive to our cdrom mount point)
    1. mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
      CentOS6 - VMware Tools - Map Mount Point cdrom
  5. Execute the following command to move to your temporary files folder
    1. cd /tmp
      CentOS6 - VMware Tools - Temporary Files
  6. Execute the following command to extract the VMware Tools tarball
    1. tar -xvf /cdrom/VMwareTools (tab to autofill the rest of the package)
      CentOS6 - VMware Tools - Extract VMware Tools
  7. Execute the following command to run the VMware Tools installer
    1.  ./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
      CentOS6 - VMware Tools - Install VMware Tools
  8. Press Enter/Return through each of the questions, using their defaults
    CentOS6 - VMware Tools - Install Default Values
    CentOS6 - VMware Tools - Install Default Values Continued
    CentOS6 - VMware Tools - Install Default Values Continued Continued
  9. Verify VMtools is running by looking at the client status in vSphere
    CentOS6 - VMware Tools - vSphere Status

1 thought on “[Tutorial] How-to install VMTools on CentOS 6

  1. Jonathan Krull

    This helped me. Municipality servers running Promun have CentOS as the underlying operating system. I followed the steps exactly and it worked perfectly. When I installed the Tools, there were more options, but I just kept pressing Enter to accept each of the defaults.
    Thanks a mil

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