Installing VMware tools on CentOS
Select Guest-> Install / Upgrate VMware tools from the drop-down menu Login to CentOS and mount the CDROM
[[email protected] ~]# mkdir / mnt / cdrom[root[email protected] ~]# mount / dev / cdrom / mnt / cdrom mount: block device / dev / cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
Change to directory / mnt / cdroom
[[email protected] ~]# cd / mnt / cdrom
Unpack VMware Tools to / tmp directory
[[email protected] ~]# tar -C / tmp -zxvf VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz
Run the installation
[[email protected] ~]# cd / tmp / vmware-tools-distrib[[email protected] ~]# ./vmware-install.pl —default
Clean up the / tmp directory
[[email protected] ~]# rm -rf / tmp / vmware-tools-distrib