Saturday 21 September 2013

Hurdle Installing VMWare tools in CentOS6

I had an issue getting vmware tools to work in CentOS 6. There were some strange permission errors, which seemed strange as I was running the install script using sudo.

The setup:
VMWare Player 6.0.0 build 1295980
CentOS 6 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64
Host system: Windows 7 64bit

The issue I eventually found out was that I had extracted the archive using the archive manager in CentOS, where as extracting the files with the command line is the process I should have used.

This was the post I found that flagged this as an issue:

Although the error was slightly different, the solution fixed the problem I was having.

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