How to install VMware Tools on CentOS 6

Here is a detailed guide for how to install VMware Tools on CentOS6 by command line interface.

1. Open vSphere and select “Install/Upgrade VMware Tools” under “guest” menu

2. Connect a ISO image of VMware-tools from the Datastores

3. Select folder, “vmimages”.

4. Select folder, “tools-isoimages”.

5. Select ISO image, “linux.ios“.

6. Mount ISO image.

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

7. Change directory.

# cd /mnt
# ls

8. Change directory and extract tar.gz file.

# cd /tmp
# tar xzf /mnt/VMwareTools-9.4.0-1280544.tar.gz

# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# ls

9. Completed

I hope it is informative for you.