Installing CentOS-6.5 minimal on VMware-installing VMware Tools

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