I needed a quick reference article for installing the VMWare tools on CentOS VM’s that I spin up in the environment.
**EDIT**
I had some problems on some upgraded from xenserver VMs not finding the CDROM. See workthrough here.
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1,
Mount the VMWare tools on the virtual machine.
do a quick update/prereq
#yum install make gcc kernel-develĀ kernel-headers glibc-headers perl
2,
#mkdir /mnt/cdrom
3,
#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
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#cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-(insertversionhere).tar.gz ~
5,
#tar zxf ~/VMwareTools-(insertversionhere).tar.gz #rm -Rf ~/VMwareTools-(insertversionhere).tar.gz
6,
#perl ~/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-config-tools.pl
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Walkthrough prompts
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#rm -Rf ~/vmware-tools-distrib