VMware tools throws:
Searching for a valid kernel header path…
The path “” is not a valid path to the 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 kernel headers.
Would you like to change it? [yes]
To prevent VMware tools not to find kernel headers, forget about the version delivered with Workstatio.8 or Fusion.8 which is something like VMwareTools-8.8.6-1035889.tar.gz
Instead download latest VMWare Tools from VMware i.e.: VMwareTools-10.0.5-3228253.tar.gz and
# rpm -qa | grep open-vm-tools # rpm -e open-vm-tools-desktop- # rpm -e open-vm-tools- # yum installl gcc # yum -y install kernel-devel-`uname -r` # yum -y install kernel-headers-`uname -r`
VMware Tools can be downloaded from the Product Download page.
Stuff comes in a tar.gz containing an .iso image for VMWare tools.
- VMware Tools support for guest operating systems in 10.1.7
- windows.iso supports Windows Vista and later.
- linux.iso supports Linux guest operating systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and later, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 and later, Ubuntu 10.04 and later. It also supports other distributions with glibc versions 2.5 and later.
- darwin.iso supports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later.
- freebsd.iso supports FreeBSD versions.
- solaris.iso supports Solaris versions.
# gunzip VMwareTools*.tar.gz # tar xvf VMwareTools*.tar # cd vmware-tools-distrib/ # perl vmware-install.pl
Works for:
OEL 7.2 + Fusion 8
Centos 7 + Workstation 8