How to install Vmware Tools on CentOS 5

Firstly, mount the VMwareTools CD by following action.

Then apply following commands;


yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
dir (Check Tools version)
cd
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

After installed successfully, clean unnecessary files by following commands;

rm -f /tmp/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib