VMware Tools CentOS 6.x easy installation guide.

Prerequisities

if you have installed new setup of centos or you haven’t installed yet, you need make, gcc, kernel-devel..

1	yum install gcc make kernel-devel

yum install gcc make kernel-devel

Install VMware Tools

Mount your VMWare tools by pressing “Install VMware Tools” in the VM menu.

Check you have root permissions. if needed press ‘su’.

type:

cd /opt
mkdir cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /opt/cdrom
cd cdrom
tar -zxvf VMWareTools-8.8.0-471268.tar.gz -C /opt
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cd /opt/vmware-tools-distrib
</span>perl vmware-install.pl
 
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cd /opt
mkdir cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /opt/cdrom
cd cdrom
tar -zxvf VMWareTools-8.8.0-471268.tar.gz -C /opt
<span style="line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;">umount /dev/cdrom
cd /opt/vmware-tools-distrib
</span>perl vmware-install.pl

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Don’t forget to check if the filename (VMWareTools-x.x.0-xxxxxxxx.tar.gz) is the same as yours. you may find it under other version.