{"id":1281,"date":"2015-09-14T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2015-09-14T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:12:00","slug":"vmware-vmtools-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2015\/09\/vmware-vmtools-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare VMTools CentOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my engineers gave me a test vmware system full of the requested guest VM&#8217;s, I noticed that the CentOS system did not have any vmware tools installed. I attempted to run through the standard mount the CD and run the rpm&#8217;s, but I was greeted with a message saying I should run the open-vm-tools suite instead.<\/p>\n<p>Install Open VM Tools<br \/>\n<code>yum -y install open-vm-tools<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Start the VM Tools Daemon<br \/>\n<code>systemctl start vmtoolsd.service<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Enable Startup on Reboot<br \/>\n<code>systemctl enable vmstoolsd.service<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>service vmtoolsd start<\/code><br \/>\nalso works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my engineers gave me a test vmware system full of the requested guest VM&#8217;s, I noticed that the CentOS system did not have any vmware tools installed. I attempted to run through the standard mount the CD and run the rpm&#8217;s, but I was greeted with a message saying I should run the open-vm-tools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2015\/09\/vmware-vmtools-centos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VMWare VMTools CentOS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}