Installing VMWare Tools on RedHat 5

scp the VMWare tools iso to /tmp on machine that will be installed.

Mount from within ESXi – Right click the host and select install vmware tools

ssh to machine and mkdir /mnt/cdrom

mkdir /mnt/cdrom

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/

cd /mnt/cdrom

cp VMwareTools-8.6.0-425873.tar.gz /tmp/

cd /tmp and tar zxf VMwareTools-8.6.0-425873.tar.gz

cd vmware-tools-distrib/

cd INSTALL

Run /vmware-install.pl and pick the defaults.