How to Install Open VMware Tools on CentOS 7

VMware Tools are very important role plays when working with VMware Player, VMware Workstation Pro, VMware ESXi or vSphere. If VMware Tools are installed on a guest, it will report back the guest information to the VMware hypervisor like guest’s IP address, CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage etc. Installing VMware Tools on a Linux machine quit easy. In this article, RPM based installation performed on CentOS 7 and related packages are available in its defaults repository. 

 

This article describes How to Install VMware Tools on CentOS 7. 

 

Step 1. VMware Tools Installation: Run the following command to install VMware Tools packages:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# yum install open-vm-tools Loaded plugins: fastestmirror …………………….. Installed:   open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:11.0.5-3.el7_9.4 …………………….. Complete! [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Step 2. Reboot Guest Machine: Make sure all precautions followed before taking reboot Guest Machine and also consult with concerns. Run the following command to reboot the guest machine to get active installed VMware Tools:

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# reboot

 

Login again after restarted the guest machine:

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# uptime  20:21:00 up 2 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.27, 0.26, 0.12 [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Step 3. Validate Tools Installation: Run the following command to verify the installation:

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# rpm -qa|grep open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64 [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Done!!! Open VMware Tools installed successfully on CentOS 7.