KB ID 0001330 

Problem

Note: This is to install the VMware Tools NOT the OPEN-VM-TOOLS.

I’ve had to do this a few times now, and every time I Goolge how to do it, I get pages of instructions on how to install the open vm tools. When what I really want is to install the VMware Tools.

Solution

I’m using vSphere ESX, but even if you are using VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion, you can still select ‘Install/Upgrade VMware tools’, this presents a DVD image to the virtual machine.

The install for VMware tools uses Perl, so you will need to have that installed.

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yum install perl

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Now we are going to mount the virtual CDROM/DVD drive into a folder, (called/mnt). Then when we have a look inside this folder, you will see the VMwareTools-{version}.tar.gz (take a note of this).

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mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /mnt
ls
TAKE NOTE OF THE VERSION!

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Unzip those files into the /tmp directory, then run the installer.

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cd /tmp
tar zxf /mnt/VMwareTools-9.10.0-2476743.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

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Keep pressing {Enter} to accept the defaults, when complete the mounted VMware tools DVD will be ejected.

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