This posting is ~6 years years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.
Today I stumbled over a nice workaround. While installing a CentOS 6 VM, I needed to install the VMware Tools. I don’t know why, but I got an error message, regarding a non accessible VMware Tools ISO.
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I remembered a blog post I read a few months ago, about a VMware online repository, from which VMware tools can be installed. You can download the repository information here. The RPM for RHEL can also be used for CentOS. Simply download and install the RPM:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | [[email protected] ~]# wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/repos/vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm --2014-07-09 11:55:58-- http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/repos/vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm Resolving packages.vmware.com... 92.197.129.9, 92.197.129.24 Connecting to packages.vmware.com|92.197.129.9|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2548 (2.5K) undefined Saving to: “vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm” 100%[======================================================================================================>] 2,548 --.-K/s in 0.009s 2014-07-09 11:55:58 (265 KB/s) - “vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm” saved [2548/2548] [[email protected] ~]# rpm -Uvh vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm warning: vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 66fd4949: NOKEY Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-0:9.4.6-1.el6.x86_64 is already installed |
Now you can use the repository information to install the VMware Tools.
1 | [[email protected] ~]# yum install -y vmware-tools-esx-nox |
That’s it.
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