because CentOS-6.5 Minimal Many tools are not installed by default, installation Vmwaretools need to use Perl, so the old man recommends configuring the network before installation.
the network configuration method can refer to installing CentOS-6.5 minimal on VMware-Configuring the network .
Installing Perl
Yum Install Perl
installing VMware Tools
1 Click the Install VMware Tools option on the VMware menu and the CD-ROM will automatically load the Linux.iso file.
2 Mount Optical Drive
mount/dev/cdrom/mnt
3 Copy the/mnt/vmwaretools-xxx-xxx.tar.gz compressed package to the/root,
Cp/mnt/vmwaretools-9.2.0-799703.tar.gz/root
4 Good habits:)
umount/mnt
5 into the/root decompression package, This time the content will be extracted to/root/vmware-tools-distrib
Cd/root
Tar zxvf vmwaretools-9.2.0-799703.tar.gz
6 Installing VMware Tools
./vmware-install.pl
Issues encountered with installing VMware tools
Question 1:
Installation to the end will be an error
Initctl:job failed to start
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Workaround:
Prompt does not start the service, then start your own manually
/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start
Question 2
when the service starts , it appears:
Blocking file system: [FAILED]
Workaround:
Yum Install Fuse-libs
After installation, restart the service
/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh restart
Installing CentOS-6.5 minimal on VMware-installing VMware Tools