First of all, we need to add the VMware repository. To do so, we create the file/etc/yum.repos.d/vmware.repo and we place this text in it:
[vmware-tools] name=VMware Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever – $basearch baseurl=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/rhel6/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
We can now install VMware tools via yum:
yum install vmware-tools-esx-nox
After the install, it can happen the installer does not configure the daemon for automatic start. If we execute:
chkconfig --list
and we do not see vmware-tools in the list, we need to configure the auto-start. First of all we check if the startup script is present:
ll /etc/init.d/vmware-tools
If the script is there, we add it to the autostart list using these two commands, one after the other:
chkconfig --add vmware-tools chkconfig vmware-tools on
We can finally start the daemon:
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start