Installing VMWare Tools in CentOS

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Tested with VMware Tools v.5.5.3 (VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz).

1. Install software needed by VMware Tools

Note: you need to boot the 1-1 kernel from grub for this to work.

1. Install packages to build the kernel modules
   

   yum install gcc kernel-devel

2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers
   

   uname -r             # running kernel
   rpm -q kernel-devel  # installed kernel headers
   

3. If the two versions do not match, run
   

   yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel
   reboot

4. Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later)
   

   ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/include

2. Prepare and install VMware Tools

Choose one of a), b), c) or d).

a) If you are running the VM inside VMware Workstation 5.5

1. From VMware Workstation: go to VM> Install VMware Tools
2. From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive
   

   mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/

3. Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
   

   tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz

4. Unmount the virtual cd drive
   

   umount /mnt

5. Now run the installer
   

   cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
   ./vmware-install.pl

6. When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".

b) If you have VMware-workstation-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz on disk

1. Make sure VMware-workstation-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz is on disk inside the VM.
2. Extract the VMware Tools iso
   

   tar --strip-components=3 -zxvf VMware-workstation-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz \
   vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/linux.iso

3. Create a temporary mount point
   

   mkdir /mnt/vmtools-temp

4. Mount the iso image
   

   mount -o loop linux.iso /mnt/vmtools-temp

5. Copy VMware Tools from the mount
   

   cp /mnt/vmtools-temp/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz /tmp/

6. Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
   

   tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/vmtools-temp/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz

7. Tidy up
   

   umount /mnt/vmtools-temp
   rmdir /mnt/vmtools-temp
   rm linux.iso

8. Now run the installer
   

   cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
   ./vmware-install.pl

9. When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".

c) If you have VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz on disk

1. Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
   

   tar -C /tmp -zxvf VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz

2. Now run the installer
   

   cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
   ./vmware-install.pl

3. When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".

d) If you cannot do any of these

1. Download VMware Workstation Trial (free) from
   http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/
2. Go to If you have VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz on disk, above.