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eoharakx
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‎09-02-2020 03:53 AM

VMWare Tools not installing on CentOS 7 Minimal VM, using Workstation Player 15

Hi,

I have a CentOS 7 vm running in Workstation Player 15. I am trying to install VMWare Tools, as I believe I need this to set up Shared Folders. There does not appear to be a simple installation process. I try to install VMWare Tools from the application, but see the option unavailable like in vmwaretools1.png attached

open-vm-tools is installed on my machine.

I attempted the following steps:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

But when I check the contents of /mnt/cdrom/, the expected VMWare Tools tar.gz file is not there, see vmwaretools2.png attached

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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RDPetruska
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‎09-02-2020 04:28 AM

Looks like you still have the CentOS installation disc mounted to the CD-ROM drive.

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eoharakx
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‎09-02-2020 04:39 AM

Hi,

Thank you for the reply! I need to download the VMWare Tools iso from Index of /45848/tools , yes? And then mount it to the CD-ROM drive instead of the CentOS installation disc. Could you advise as to what version I need? Can provide more info if required

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eoharakx
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‎09-02-2020 04:42 AM

According to this page, my OS version does not have an OSP Operating System Specific Packages Home Page

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