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Contents
Overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 1
Applies To...................................................................................................................................................... 1
Pre-requisites ................................................................................................................................................ 1
Install Packages ......................................................................................................................................... 1
Invoke Install VMWare Tools Host ......................................................................................................... 1
Create CDROM Mount Location ............................................................................................................... 2
Mount CDROM .......................................................................................................................................... 3
Copy VMWare Tools Installer ................................................................................................................ 3
Extract VMWare Tools Installer ............................................................................................................. 3
Invoke Installer.......................................................................................................................................... 3
VMWare Tools Installation Verify .............................................................................................................. 5
Troubleshooting Installation ......................................................................................................................... 6
Issue finding ipconfig ................................................................................................................................ 6
Issue bad interpreter ................................................................................................................................ 7
Fuse Packages ........................................................................................................................................... 7
VMWare Tools Uninstallation ....................................................................................................................... 8
Applies To
Linux flavour of operating systems.
Pre-requisites
Before you start Installing VMWare Tools on the system, below packages have to be installed.
Package
net-tools
kernel-headers
kernel-libs
kernel-devel
make
gcc
perl
fuse
Purpose
To find IP information
Kernel Headers
Kernel Libraries
Kernel development tools
Make binaries of the compiled source
Compile Source
Interpreter for VMWare Tools Installer
Drag and Drop feature enabling for host and guest machine
Install Packages
yum install -y kernel-headers kernel-libs kernel-devel kernel-tools
yum install -y gcc
yum install -y make
yum install -y perl
yum install -y net-tools
yum install -y fuse
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Invoke Installer
Invoke the installer and follow the instructions, press Enter to accept the default values.
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl
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Note: Ideally, you could press Enter, though read the instructions and press enter for each question;
complete the installation and reboot the guest system.
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Troubleshooting Installation
Issue finding ipconfig
Error: Unable to find the Ipconfig program.
From Centos 7 onwards, IP configuration will be retrieved by command ip addr, so we need to install
net-tools package. To net-tools package install run the command
yum install net-tools
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Fuse Packages
Error: system does not have the required fuse packages installed
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