VmWareWS prompt for VmWareTools installation. But VmWTools already installed!!

[mattad]

After calling a CentOS Vm everything is fine except the fact

that at the bottom part of the VmWare Window a bar appears which prompts me to

install VmWareTools. See attached snapshot.

But this bar is displayed after next reboot again even if I have already installed

VmWareTools. If I try to re-install VmWareTools again VmWare WS v6.5 told me/confirms

that they are already installed. See attached snapshot2:

So how do I get rid of this f***ing VmWareTool installation prompt?

Matt

[vmroyale]

Hello.

Add this line to your .vmx file for the VM:

tools.remindInstall = "false"

Good Luck!

[RDPetruska]

After installing the Tools rpm package, did you run the configuration script? If not, then the "install" merely copied files - nothing is loaded/running. Refer to the User Manual for Installing VMware Tools in a Linux guest.

[mattad]

Where is the install script?

Ok, after I extracted the .rpm archive.

Where do I find the install script? To which target folder

was the rpm extracted?

Is it a *.pl (=Perl script) ?

Do I have to extract the .tar.gz archive as well (=additionally) or is rpm enough?

Matt

[RDPetruska]

Honestly, I don't know. I've never had luck with the RPM installs for that very reason - I always use the command line tarball installs.