VMWare Tools for Centos5

[kbensch]

Hello everyone

I have recently installed Centos5.2 on VMWare ESXi 3.5.0.

Is it nessecary for me to install the VMWare tools and if I do what would it give me?

I know what it does on Windows, but I am unable to find a doc that will tell me the above.

Thanks

Kobus

[donnieq]

Hi Kobus,

Yes, installing VMware Tools on the virtual guests is certainly important and a best practice. I've installed VMware Tools on CentOS 5.2 in production environments without issue. The steps are as follows:

0.) Be certain that the virtual machine has a CD-ROM drive listed in its hardware configuration

1.) Power on the virtual machine

2.) After the guest operating system has started, right click the virtual machine in question and choose Install/Upgrade VMware Tools

3.) As root or with root access, issue the following commands:

a.) mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

b.) cp -a /mnt/VMwareTools-<xxxxx>.i386.rpm /tmp/

c.) rpm -Uvh /tmp/VMwareTools-<xxxxx>.i386.rpm

d.) umount /mnt

4.) Run the configuration program (requires Perl) from the console using the following command:

a.) vmware-config-tools.pl

5.) Issue the following command to start VMware tools on boot: chkconfig vmware-tools on

Don Q.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum.

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Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
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