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The official VMware Tools add-ons need to be compiled and installed as modules.
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The open-vm-tools is nowadays the recommended way to install VMware Tools add-ons due to the complexity that VMWare own official VMware Tools bring. See VMWare KB: Configuring disks to use VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapters (1010398) selecting a paravirtualized disk controller). Whilst normally the VMXNET adapter use/configuration can nowadays be pretty automatic, you need to do extra parametrisation on the ESXi/ESX side to take profit of disk controller paravirtualization (e.g. Then to install the actual open source VMware Tools, it is indeed: yum install open-vm-toolsĪdditionally, if installing VMWare Tools (open or not), take care to make sure you will be using the VMXNET NIC adapter interfaces and disk access paravirtualization.
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For installing the open source VMware Tools for CentOS, you need first to install the EPEL repository with: yum -enablerepo=extras install epel-release
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