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.
- Mount the VM tools installer to your VM
- Open up Terminal
- Execute the following command (this will create a mount point for our CD drive)
- mkdir /cdrom
- mkdir /cdrom
- Execute the following command (this will map the CD drive to our cdrom mount point)
- mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
- mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
- Execute the following command to move to your temporary files folder
- cd /tmp
- cd /tmp
- Execute the following command to extract the VMware Tools tarball
- tar -xvf /cdrom/VMwareTools (tab to autofill the rest of the package)
- tar -xvf /cdrom/VMwareTools (tab to autofill the rest of the package)
- Execute the following command to run the VMware Tools installer
- ./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
- ./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
- Press Enter/Return through each of the questions, using their defaults
- Verify VMtools is running by looking at the client status in vSphere
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.
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