Below is the process
to install VMware Tools on RHEL 6 or CentOS 6. This guide is more here for me
than anyone else, but I hope that you can benefit from it.
Install the
Pre-Requisites:
yum install make
gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers glibc-headers perl
Start the VMware
Tools installation process on your VM:
Mount the VMware
Tools installation media:
mkdir /mnt/cd
mount /dev/cdrom
/mnt/cd
Expected warning:
mount: block device
/dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
Extract the
installer:
cp
/mnt/cd/VMwareTools-9.0.10-1481436.tar.gz /tmp/
cd /tmp
tar xvf
VMwareTools-9.0.10-1481436.tar.gz
cd
vmware-tools-distrib/
Install tools
(accepting all defaults):
sudo
./vmware-install.pl -d
Reboot the VM to
verify that the service starts up automatically as expected.
shutdown -r now
