Installing VMware Tools on Centos 7

• Posted on Chris Couture
• in Linux Stuff
• on May 28, 2015
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It’s easy to install VMware Tools on a Centos guest.  This allows you to properly shutdown guests running Linux and also give a little more in-depth reporting within ESXi.

All you need to do is type the following command in SSH:

yum install open-vm-tools

This will download and install VMware Tools and you will need to reboot the guest system in order for it to become active in your host.