Monthly Archives: October 2016

VMWare Tools: Searching for a valid kernel header path…

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