Install Vmware tool Rhel7

Install VMware Tools on RHEL7

Author: Admin | 

Oct

15

2018

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7) installs open-vm-tools (the open source implementation of VMware tools) automatically when the OS is deployed as guest in a virtualized environment. If for whatever reason you want to replace it with the licensed VMware tools here’s what you need to do.

1. Trigger the installation of VMware tools in the VMware app (I am using VMware Workstation Player)

2. Mount the CD image of VMware tools in the guest OS

mkdir -p /mnt/cd /tmp/vmware
mount -o loop /dev/sr0 /mnt/cd

3. Copy the VMware tools archive from the mounted CD to local partition

cp /mnt/cd/VMwareTools-10.3.2-9925305.tar.gz /tmp/vmware

4. Extract the content

cd /tmp/vmware/
tar zxvf VMwareTools-10.3.2-9925305.tar.gz

5. Ensure open-vm-tools is uninstalled and dependency packages exist on the guest OS

yum remove open-vm-tools
yum install policycoreutils-python
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

6. Install VMware tools

cd vmware-tools-distrib/
perl vmware-install.pl -d -f

7. Confirm the service is up and running

systemctl status vmware-tools

To revert the changes (remove VMware tools and use the open source implementation):

cd /tmp/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/bin
perl vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
yum install open-vm-tools

Hope this helps!