No internet tools install
Initiate the VMware tools installed on your CentOS 6.2 VM. Open an SSH session to your VM and copy/paste this:
(It is not recommended to directly paste something into a command prompt as a malicious website can inject crazy business. Please paste this into notepad before putting it into an ssh session.)
yum -y install perl
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz /tmp
umount /mnt/cdrom
tar -zxf /tmp/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz -C /tmp
cd /
./tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl –default
rm -f /tmp/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
Bam! VMware Tools installed!
Network Tools install
# go to http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html and find your version of ESX. Find the correct rpm and plug it into the script.
yum -y install http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.5p01/repos/vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
yum -y install vmware-tools-esx-nox
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