{"id":557,"date":"2013-12-16T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=557"},"modified":"2013-12-16T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:00:20","slug":"installing-latest-vmware-tools-on-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Installing latest VMware Tools on CentOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">You can find all VMware Tools packages on<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\thttps:\/\/packages.vmware.com\/tools\/esx\/index.html\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThey provide an .exe and .iso file for windows and package repositories for different linux distributions like RHEL, CentOS, SuSE or Ubuntu.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHere an example how to setup a package repository for ESXi 4.1 and CentOS5:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tcreate a repo file<br \/>\n\t\t<em># touch \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/vmware-tools.repo<\/em>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tthen open it<br \/>\n\t\t<em># vim \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/vmware-tools.repo<\/em>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tand paste following text inside:<br \/>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">[VMWare-tools]<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">name=VMWare Tools Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 &#8211; $basearch<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">baseurl=https:\/\/packages.vmware.com\/tools\/esx\/4.1latest\/rhel5\/$basearch<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">enabled=1<br \/>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">gpgcheck=0<\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">save it and close the file.<\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">now you can install the vmware-tools (desktop) or vmware-tools-nox (server) package.<\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">after install reboot the computer<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">\u200breplace inside the baseurl &quot;4.1latest&quot; with your esxi version and &quot;rhel5&quot; with your os version.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find all VMware Tools packages on https:\/\/packages.vmware.com\/tools\/esx\/index.html They provide an .exe and .iso file for windows and package repositories for different linux distributions like RHEL, CentOS, SuSE or Ubuntu. Here an example how to setup a package repository for ESXi 4.1 and CentOS5: create a repo file # touch \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/vmware-tools.repo then open it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxunix","category-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}