Install VMWare Tools (Host – Windows, Guest – Linux)

Install software needed by VMware Tools

Note: you need to boot the 1-1 kernel from grub for this to work. Then:

1. Install packages to build the kernel modules: yum install gcc kernel-devel
2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers:

   
   uname -r             # running kernel
   rpm -q kernel-devel  # installed kernel headers
   

3. If the two versions do not match, run:

   
   yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel
   reboot
   

4. Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later): ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/include

Prepare and install VMware Tools

Note: this guide is for you If you are running the VM inside VMware Workstation 5.5+

1. From VMware Workstation: go to VM> Install VMware Tools
2. From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
3. Extract VMware Tools to: /tmp/tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz
4. Unmount the virtual cd drive: umount /mnt
5. Now run the installer:

   
   cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
   ./vmware-install.pl
   

6. When asked “Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?”, answer “Yes”.