Install VMware Tools on CentOS 7

1. Install the necessary prerequisites and reboot
# yum install perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel net-tools -y
# reboot

2. Attach VMware tools from vSphere client.

3. Mount the VMware tools package into /mnt
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

4. Copy VMware tool into the /tmp directory
# cd /mnt
# cp VMwareTools-xxxxxx.tar.gz /tmp

5. Go into the /tmp directory and extract the VMware tools package
# cd /tmp
# tar xzf VMwareTools-xxxxxx.tar.gz

6. cd into the extracted folder, vmware-tools-distrib
# cd vmware-tools-distrib

7. Run vmware-install.pl to start the installation
# ./vmware-install.pl
Once you see it’s finished, reboot and check that VMware tools is running:

8. Once sussessfully installed don’t forget to unmount the /mnt
# umount /mnt