CentOS installation Vm-tools in VMware

View device information for a CD-ROM drive

There are several commands that you can use to view

DMESG command

/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file

cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info

LSBLK command

List all block devices

Installing Vm-tools

From the menu, choose virtual Machines, reinstall VMware Tools, enter the CentOS terminal, and perform the above command to view the CD-ROM drive device information.

# 创建挂载目录mkdir /mnt/cdrom# 挂载mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom# 将光盘中的内容拷贝到主目录下mkdir ~/tmpcp /mnt/cdrom/* ~/tmp/# 解压cd ~/tmptar -xzvf VMwareTools-9.6.1-1378637.tar.gz# 安装cd vmware-tools-distrib./vmware-install.pl

Installation encountered the following error

Need to uninstall Open-vm-tools-desktop

rpm -e open-vm-tools-desktop

Uninstall after the installation, the installation process will have the following interaction, encountered the following two Interactive select No, other cases directly press ENTER

Searching for GCC...The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary.Would you like to change it? [yes]  noSearching for a valid kernel header path...The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 kernel headers.Would you like to change it? [yes]  no

Configure shared Folders

After setting up the shared directory, you can view the shared directory in CentOS

The default share path for VMware is in /mnt/hgfs , which is written in the script of VMware Tools /etc/init.d/vmware-tools .

Reference

• Linux: How to view device information for a dvd/cd-rom drive
• Installing Vm-tools for Linux systems in VMware
• CentOS 7 Settings folder sharing in VMware

CentOS installation Vm-tools in VMware