{"id":194,"date":"2014-11-10T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriptsmy.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:47:25","slug":"how-to-install-open-vm-tools-in-centos-6-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/how-to-install-open-vm-tools-in-centos-6-6\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install open-vm-tools in CentOS 6.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> How to install open-vm-tools in linux CentOS 6.6 ?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> 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 (&#8220;open-vm-tools&#8221;) 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.<\/p>\n<p>open-vm-tools is available with these operating systems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fedora 19 and later releases<\/li>\n<li>Debian 7.x and later releases<\/li>\n<li>openSUSE 11.x and later releases<\/li>\n<li>Recent Ubuntu releases (12.04 LTS, 13.10 and later)<\/li>\n<li>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and later releases<\/li>\n<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 &#8211; available Q4 2014<\/li>\n<li>CentOS 7<\/li>\n<li>Oracle Linux 7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Prepare EPEL repo for CentOS 6.6<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@centos66 ~]# rpm --import http:\/\/ftp.riken.jp\/Linux\/fedora\/epel\/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6\n[root@centos66 ~]# rpm -ivh http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/6\/x86_64\/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm\n<\/pre>\n<p>2. Simply run yum command to install open-vm-tools<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@centos66 ~]# yum install open-vm-tools -y\n<\/pre>\n<p>Examples :<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@centos66 ~]# yum install open-vm-tools -y\nLoaded plugins: fastestmirror\nSetting up Install Process\nLoading mirror speeds from cached hostfile\n * base: centos.ipserverone.com\n * epel: kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id\n * extras: centos.ipserverone.com\n * updates: centos.ipserverone.com\nResolving Dependencies\n--> Running transaction check\n---> Package open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:9.4.6-1.el6 will be installed\n--> Processing Dependency: libicuuc.so.42()(64bit) for package: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64\n--> Processing Dependency: libicui18n.so.42()(64bit) for package: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64\n--> Processing Dependency: libicudata.so.42()(64bit) for package: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64\n--> Processing Dependency: libdnet.so.1()(64bit) for package: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64\n--> Running transaction check\n---> Package libdnet.x86_64 0:1.12-6.el6 will be installed\n---> Package libicu.x86_64 0:4.2.1-9.1.el6_2 will be installed\n--> Finished Dependency Resolution\n\nDependencies Resolved\n\n====================================================================================================\n Package                   Arch               Version                        Repository        Size\n====================================================================================================\nInstalling:\n open-vm-tools             x86_64             9.4.6-1.el6                    epel             402 k\nInstalling for dependencies:\n libdnet                   x86_64             1.12-6.el6                     epel              28 k\n libicu                    x86_64             4.2.1-9.1.el6_2                base             4.9 M\n\nTransaction Summary\n====================================================================================================\nInstall       3 Package(s)\n\nTotal download size: 5.3 M\nInstalled size: 20 M\nDownloading Packages:\n(1\/3): libdnet-1.12-6.el6.x86_64.rpm                                         |  28 kB     00:00\nhttp:\/\/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')\nTrying other mirror.\n(2\/3): libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm                                     | 4.9 MB     01:21\n(3\/3): open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm                                  | 402 kB     00:04\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nTotal                                                                44 kB\/s | 5.3 MB     02:04\nRunning rpm_check_debug\nRunning Transaction Test\nTransaction Test Succeeded\nRunning Transaction\nWarning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.\n  Installing : libdnet-1.12-6.el6.x86_64                                                        1\/3\n  Installing : libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64                                                    2\/3\n  Installing : open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64                                                 3\/3\n  Verifying  : libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64                                                    1\/3\n  Verifying  : open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64                                                 2\/3\n  Verifying  : libdnet-1.12-6.el6.x86_64                                                        3\/3\n\nInstalled:\n  open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:9.4.6-1.el6\n\nDependency Installed:\n  libdnet.x86_64 0:1.12-6.el6                    libicu.x86_64 0:4.2.1-9.1.el6_2\n\nComplete!\n<\/pre>\n<p>3. Start vmtoolsd service :<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@centos66 ~]# service vmtoolsd start\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. How to install open-vm-tools in linux CentOS 6.6 ? A. 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