If you are working with a virtualization platform then most of the time some components are needed for host integration. I have installed my CentOS virtual machine on a VMWare Server host and now I want to install the VMWare tools.

How to install VMWare tools on a CentOS operating system?

Locate the VMWare tools ISO file for linux operating system. Most of the time there is an option like install “Integration tools”.

I am using VMWare Server 1 so the iso file can be found C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\linux.iso.

Login with VMWare Server Console to CentOS vm and mount the ISO to the cd-rom drive.

• mkdir /mnt/cdrom
• mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Mount command will link the cdrom to the  /mnt/cdrom directory.  Now you can copy the rpm file to /tmp and start the installation process.

• cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-1.0.2-39867.i386.rpm /tmp
• cd /tmp
• rpm -i /tmp/VMwareTools-1.0.2-39867.i386.rpm

After the file has been installed start the vmware tools perl script

• vmware-config-tools.pl

References

• VMware Tools for Linux Guests
• Running the vmware-config-tools.pl script on a Linux host fails due to kernel version mismatch

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