Centos Vm Install Vmware Tools Linux

The following guide will show you how to install VMware Tools on CentOS VM created by VMware Player. The same procedure can be applied when you are using VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion as well. The same procedure can be applied when you are using VMware Workstation or VMware.

VMware Tools is a group of utilities that enhances the overall performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system (OS) and improves management of the virtual machine (VM). This is one of important components in order to provide perfect VM OS. Without the VMware Tools, guest OS performance will lacks some of the important functionality. Please follow below steps to install the VMware Tools on CentOS 6.3:

1. Install prerequisites :

2. Right click on the VM, goto Guest, Install/Upgrade VMware tools.

3. Mount VMware-tool installer :

4. Extract and install :

During the installation wizard, just press enter for default selection. For certain cases, you will get stuck on the following :

Solution :

What you can do is perform kernel updates, then reboot and finally re-run the VMware-tools installation script.

Steps
1. Perform update to kernel :

2. Reboot the CentOS 6.3

3. Re-run VMware-Tools installation :

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