Q. How to install open-vm-tools in linux CentOS 6.6 ?
A. VMware is announcing the release of large portions of VMware Tools for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD guests under GPL and GPL-compatible licenses. VMware is also announcing the creation of the Open Virtual Machine Tools (“open-vm-tools”) project on Sourceforge.net. Even-though CentOS 6 not on the recommendation list, you still able to install the third party VMware-Tools (open-vm-tools) via EPEL repo as below steps.
open-vm-tools is available with these operating systems:
- Fedora 19 and later releases
- Debian 7.x and later releases
- openSUSE 11.x and later releases
- Recent Ubuntu releases (12.04 LTS, 13.10 and later)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and later releases
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 – available Q4 2014
- CentOS 7
- Oracle Linux 7
1. Prepare EPEL repo for CentOS 6.6
[root@centos66 ~]# rpm --import http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 [root@centos66 ~]# rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
2. Simply run yum command to install open-vm-tools
[root@centos66 ~]# yum install open-vm-tools -y
Examples :
[root@centos66 ~]# yum install open-vm-tools -y Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Setting up Install Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.ipserverone.com * epel: kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id * extras: centos.ipserverone.com * updates: centos.ipserverone.com Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:9.4.6-1.el6 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: libicuuc.so.42()(64bit) for package: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libicui18n.so.42()(64bit) for package: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libicudata.so.42()(64bit) for package: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libdnet.so.1()(64bit) for package: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package libdnet.x86_64 0:1.12-6.el6 will be installed ---> Package libicu.x86_64 0:4.2.1-9.1.el6_2 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ==================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ==================================================================================================== Installing: open-vm-tools x86_64 9.4.6-1.el6 epel 402 k Installing for dependencies: libdnet x86_64 1.12-6.el6 epel 28 k libicu x86_64 4.2.1-9.1.el6_2 base 4.9 M Transaction Summary ==================================================================================================== Install 3 Package(s) Total download size: 5.3 M Installed size: 20 M Downloading Packages: (1/3): libdnet-1.12-6.el6.x86_64.rpm | 28 kB 00:00 http://centos.ipserverone.com/centos/6.6/os/x86_64/Packages/libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://centos.ipserverone.com/centos/6.6/os/x86_64/Packages/libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds') Trying other mirror. (2/3): libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm | 4.9 MB 01:21 (3/3): open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm | 402 kB 00:04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 44 kB/s | 5.3 MB 02:04 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum. Installing : libdnet-1.12-6.el6.x86_64 1/3 Installing : libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64 2/3 Installing : open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64 3/3 Verifying : libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64 1/3 Verifying : open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64 2/3 Verifying : libdnet-1.12-6.el6.x86_64 3/3 Installed: open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:9.4.6-1.el6 Dependency Installed: libdnet.x86_64 0:1.12-6.el6 libicu.x86_64 0:4.2.1-9.1.el6_2 Complete!
3. Start vmtoolsd service :
[root@centos66 ~]# service vmtoolsd start
