

Double-click to open gz File and unzip the folder to your desktop ( It can be dragged directly ).Will be one of the gz Drag the file to the desktop.And then kali A CD icon will appear on your desktop The name is VMwareTools.First click on the virtual machine Choose to install vmtools( If you're not sure if there's vmtools You can choose to re install ) Reboot your server and you are good to go. I will not cover configuration, and it is optional for a start. I will also invoke config tool s right away and enter yes

I will confirm /usr/sbin as my daemon files dirĭocumentation folder will also be default for me Well, I think my init dirs are in default spot, so I will again just confirmĪgain, I will just confirm the init scripts dir by pressing ENTER Īll the steps that are following are up to you, I will choose all default values during process Now that we unpacked VMware tools we will navigate to -vmware-tools-distrib which is subfolder of /tmp cd vmware-tools-distribĪnd now, the installation step. Now, let’s navigate to the /tmp folder and untar VMware Tools. We will now be copying tar to the local tmp folder. In my case WMware Tools are VMwareTools-10.3. Then we will mount cdrom mkdir /mnt/cdromīefore we go further, we need to determine which version of VMware Tools we will be copying and then installing. On CentOS 7 VM from top Applications menu | Favorites choose Terminalįirst step is to become admin, so will will type su and then enter our root password su This quick tutorial will cover installation of VMware Tools on VMware Workstation 15 Pro with installed CentOS 7 guest virtual machine with GUI.įirst, on VMware Workstation 15 Pro choose your CentOS 7 VM and then click on VM menu on the top of the Workstation Pro.
