Solve the Problem of installing VMware Tools after CentOS mini Installation

Prepare and install necessary components first.

Yum-y groupinstall "Perl Support"

Yum-y install gcc-c ++ automake make kernel-devel

 

Find the server in vCenter and install the VMWARE upgrade tool (omitted for graphic operations ).

Mkdir/mnt/cdrom
Mount-o loop/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom
Cd/mnt/cdrom

Cp VMwareTools *. */home

--------------------- After the copy is completed, the mounting can be broken.
Umount/mnt/cdrom
Rm/mnt/cdrom-rf

 

Cd/home

Tar zxvf VMwareTools ...... tgz

Cd vm ....../

Then install:

./Vmware_install.pl

 

If it is normal, press enter all the way.

 

 

========================================================== ============

Searching for GCC...

The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Wocould you like to change it? [Yes]
If this occurs, it indicates that gcc is not installed.
# Yum install gcc-c ++ automake make
Install the compiling environment once


Searching for a valid kernel header path...
The path "" is not valid.
Wocould you like to change it? [Yes]
If this occurs, the kernel-devel package is not installed.
# Yum install


When VMware tools is successfully installed, press enter as follows:
Searching for GCC...
Detected GCC binary at "/usr/bin/gcc ".
The path "/usr/bin/gcc" appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary.
Wocould you like to change it? [No]

Searching for a valid kernel header path...
Detected the kernel headers of the running kernel
"/Lib/modules/2.6.32-71. el6.i686/build/include ".
The path "/lib/modules/2.6.32-71. el6.i686/build/include" appears to be a valid
Path to the kernel headers of the running kernel.


Wocould you like to change it? [No]