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Linux – Install VMware Tools

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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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CentOS / Redhat / Fedora – VMware VMXNET3 Adapter Not Working

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KB ID 0001329 

Problem

This has tripped me up a couple of times, and if you Google the problem, you find a load of posts saying ‘Just install VMware tools that will fix the problem’

It Wont!

And I’ll tell you why, run ifconfig

You will notice you have a network card, but you will also notice that it’s got a strange name ‘ens160’ not eth0 as you would normally expect? Anyway let’s prove it’s not a driver issue by issuing a dhclient -v command. This basically forces the NIC up and makes it get a DHCP address, (assuming your NIC is connected to the correct network, and you have DHCP running of course!)

So this tells me it’s not a driver issue, and that installing VMware tools probably wont cure the problem.

It Didn’t!

Also if you reboot, you will find it’s not working again!

Solution

I’m going to use nano in a minute, (other editors are available), so I’ll install that first. (I’m logged in as root, you may need to prefix the following command with sudo if you are not).

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yum install nano

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Remember my network card had a ‘funny name’, well change directory to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory, and you will see it’s config file, so let’s edit that, (change the text in red, to reflect your interface name, from the ifconfig command earlier);

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cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
nano ifconfig-ens160

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Make sure;

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ONBOOT=yes

Now if you reboot your VM, it should come back up with networking enabled.

 

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