Install software needed by VMware Tools
Note: you need to boot the 1-1 kernel from grub for this to work. Then:
- Install packages to build the kernel modules:
yum install gcc kernel-devel - Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers:
uname -r # running kernel rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers - If the two versions do not match, run:
yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel reboot - Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later):
ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/include
Prepare and install VMware Tools
Note: this guide is for you If you are running the VM inside VMware Workstation 5.5+
- From VMware Workstation: go to VM> Install VMware Tools
- From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/ - Extract VMware Tools to:
/tmp/tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz - Unmount the virtual cd drive:
umount /mnt - Now run the installer:
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl - When asked “Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?”, answer “Yes”.
