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jmarrero
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Technical support assistance with standalone VMWare player tools

Due to the closed environment in which I am currently working, it is not possible to download the VMWare tools from the guest host OS.  I am using CentOS to install a Cisco application .  All seems to work fine until I try to load up the VMWare tools.  I cannot change my configuration to access the internet.  I noticed the site to download the ISO file but it is restricted.  Can this be elevated in the technical support teams to allow the download of the ISO, and if so where are the instructions to install it once the ISO is downloaded?  

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john_willis
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Technically this is possible.

The software update URL is named based on a server named software.vmware.com.

It would not be easy, but you could download the SSL Cert using a browser to look at the public certificate and save it.

Then create a webserver on a private workstation, vm ect.. that runs a webserver and serves the SSL Certificate.

You would also need to download all of the update server content and be ready to serve it to the VMware player.

The "key" to making it work would be to modify the system hosting the VMware Player's host file to "match" the stand in servers IP address to the "name" of the SSL certificate.

It is not an easy thing to do.

But it should be possible.

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