CentOS 6 VMware Tools Install the Easy Way

How to install VMware tools on your CentOS Server the easy way.

Initiate the VMware tools install on your CentOS 6.2 VM.

Open a SSH session to your VM and copy/paste the following.

Your title here...If you need to install the perl package first do this:

yum -y install perl

Then to mount the installer media:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz /tmp
umount /mnt/cdrom
tar -zxf /tmp/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz -C /tmp

Then to install VMware Tools:

cd /
./tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl --default 
rm -f /tmp/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib

Just like that! VMware Tools installed!