How to Install VMware Tools on Cent. OS 6. 3. VMware Tools is a group of utilities that enhances the overall performance of the virtual machines guest operating system OS and improves management of the virtual machine VM. This is one of important components in order to provide perfect VM OS. Without the VMware Tools, guest OS performance will lacks some of the important functionality. Please follow below steps to install the VMware Tools on Cent. OS 6. 3 1. Install prerequisites email protected yum install perl gcc make kernel headers kernel devel y. Right click on the VM, goto Guest, InstallUpgrade VMware tools. How To Use Yum To Install Gcc On Centos' title='How To Use Yum To Install Gcc On Centos' />How To Use Yum To Install Gcc On Centos CommandsMount VMware tool installer email protected mount devcdrom mnt. Extract and install email protected cd mnt. VMware. Tools 2. VMware. Tools 2. During the installation wizard, just press enter for default selection. For certain cases, you will get stuck on the following. Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine. Guest operating system daemon OK. None of the pre built vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmemctl module. C compiler installed on your system Using compiler usrbingcc. Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running. Solution What you can do is perform kernel updates, then reboot and finally re run the VMware tools installation script. Steps. 1. Perform update to kernel email protected vmware tools distrib yum update kernel y. Loaded plugins fastestmirror, presto. Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile. Errno 1. 4 Could not openread file mntrepodatarepomd. Trying other mirror. Setting up Update Process. Resolving Dependencies. Running transaction check. Package kernel. i. Processing Dependency kernel firmware 2. Running transaction check. How To Use Yum To Install Gcc On Centos Server' title='How To Use Yum To Install Gcc On Centos Server' />Package kernel firmware. Package kernel firmware. Finished Dependency Resolution. Dependencies Resolved. Package Arch Version Repository Size. M. Updating for dependencies. M. Transaction Summary. Install 1 Packages. Upgrade 1 Packages. Total download size 3. M. Downloading Packages. Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata. B 0. 0 0. 0. Processing delta metadata. To install Apache on CentOS, Red Hat and Fedora use these commands. How To Use Yum To Install Gcc On Centos 7Download delta size 6. M. 12 kernel 2. MB 0. MB 0. 0 1. 1. Finishing rebuild of rpms, from deltarpms. MB 0. 0 2. 0. Presto reduced the update size by 7. M to 6. 8 M. Running rpmcheckdebug. Running Transaction Test. Transaction Test Succeeded. Running Transaction. Updating kernel firmware 2. Installing kernel 2. Cleanup kernel firmware 2. Verifying kernel firmware 2. Verifying kernel 2. Verifying kernel firmware 2. Dependency Updated. Reboot the Cent. OS 6. Re run VMware Tools installation email protected vmware tools distrib. A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected. The previous installation was made by the tar installer version 4. Keeping the tar. 4 installer database format. You have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will. Do you wish to continueUninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools. Stopping services for VMware Tools. Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine. Guest operating system daemon OK. File usrlibvmware toolslib. This program previously created the file. Somebody else apparently did it already. File usrlibvmware toolslib. File usrlibvmware toolslib. This program previously created the file. Somebody else apparently did it already. This program previously created the file. Somebody else apparently did it already. This program previously created the file. Somebody else apparently did it already. This program previously created the file. Somebody else apparently did it already. File usrlibvmware toolslib. The removal of VMware Tools 2. Linux completed. Installing VMware Tools. In which directory do you want to install the binary files What is the directory that contains the init directories rc. What is the directory that contains the init scripts In which directory do you want to install the daemon files In which directory do you want to install the library files In which directory do you want to install the documentation filesThe path usrsharedocvmware tools does not exist currently. This program. is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you. The installation of VMware Tools 2. Linux completed. successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any. Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by. Do you want. this program to invoke the command for you now It looks like you are trying to run this program in a remote session. This. program will temporarily shut down your network connection, so you should only. Are you SURE you want to continue Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine. Guest operating system daemon OK. None of the pre built vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmemctl module. C compiler installed on your system Using compiler usrbingcc. Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running. Extracting the sources of the vmmemctl module. Building the vmmemctl module. Using 2. 6. x kernel build system. Entering directory tmpvmware config. C libmodules2. SUBDIRSPWD SRCROOTPWD. Entering directory usrsrckernels2. CC M tmpvmware config. Gcc. 32. o. In file included from tmpvmware config. Gcc. 32. c 4. 5. Free. BSD is not defined. CC M tmpvmware config. In file included from tmpvmware config. Error 1. make1 moduletmpvmware config. Error 2. make1 Leaving directory usrsrckernels2. Error 2. make Leaving directory tmpvmware config. Unable to build the vmmemctl module. The memory manager driver vmmemctl module is used by VMware host software to. If the driver is not available, VMware host software may instead need to swap. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work. If you want the memory management feature, you can install the driver by. These packages are available on your distributions installation CD. Press Enter key to continue. None of the pre built vmxnet modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your. Do you want this program to try to build the vmxnet module for. C compiler installed on your system Extracting the sources of the vmxnet module. Building the vmxnet module. Using 2. 6. x kernel build system. Entering directory tmpvmware config. C libmodules2. SUBDIRSPWD SRCROOTPWD. Entering directory usrsrckernels2. CC M tmpvmware config. In file included from tmpvmware config. Free. BSD is not defined. In function vmxnetchangemtu. In function vmxnetgetdrvinfo. In function vmxnetsettso. In function vmxnetlinkcheck. Adobe Acrobat Not Opening Pdf. In function vmxnetprobedevice. In function vmxnetremovedevice. In function vmxnetinitring. In function vmxnetopen. In function checktxqueue. In function vmxnettx. In function vmxnetrx. In function vmxnetinterrupt. In function vmxnetclose. In function vmxnetloadmulticast. In function vmxnetsetmulticastlist. In function vmxnetgetstats. Error 1. make1 moduletmpvmware config.