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These are show stopping issues in my book. Another thing to look out for is whether SELinux could be blocking some of the vmware tools from working correctly – supposedly with system updates that should not be a problem but beware. This can prevent critical functions from working.

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Unfortunately, the vmware tools kernel modules (kmod) will not work properly unless you are running the *exact* kernel update the VMware team compiled against.

# part broken if kernel doesn't match their compile target

Centos vmware tools download install#

Yum install vmware-tools-esx-kmods vmware-tools-esx # use the package manager to install the vmware tools bundle # get the latest vmware repository for your version of vmware and linux distro Choose your VM > Click Install VMware Tools from the VMware Workstation menu, VMware Workstation temporarily connects the virtual machine’s first virtual CD-ROM drive to the ISO image file that contains the VMware Tools installer for your guest operating system and you are ready to begin the installation process. Download the latest version of VMware Workstation Player by running the following wget command: Once the download is completed make the installation file executable using the following chmod command.

I recommend EPEL repository provided “open-vm-tools” for better support with *any* RHEL/CentOS kernel version.

Complete the following steps to install VMware Workstation Player on CentOS 7: 1.

It didn’t work correctly for me because of small kernel update version mismatch – see the notes below. Here are some notes for CentOS 6.x as of October 2013. VMware provides “Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs)” for users of popular Linux distributions like RHEL 6.x and CentOS 6.x. The Linux OSP’s just don’t work well with kernel updates – stick to the distribution supported packages for smooth operation. In addition to RHEL 7, VMware is now recommending the use of open-vm-tools on *all* Linux distributions which provide a supported package such as the RHEL 6 EPEL open-vm-tools as mentioned below. Update, RHEL 7 is now supported and VMware officially recommends *only*the open-vm-tools which are now included in the default RHEL 7 package repositories.