Install Vmware Tools

Installing VMware Tools on CentOS

I don't remember ho often I installed CentOS on VMware and yet I always need to google how this tool installation works. So first of all you need to mount cdrom with vmware tools (image is inserted by player automatically). This can be done by:

mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Make sure cdrom folder exists. You can chose of course any existing folder. After that just copy VMware package to e.g. /tmp and extract it with:

tar -xzvf WMwareTools-...tar.gz

After that you can enter newly created folder with extracted tools and run vmware-install.pl

Cygwin and telnet

If you are looking for small network tools like telnet, you may found it difficult to find via package search in cygwin's setup tool. That's because it is part of package inetutils. Thought that might save some folks out there google time :)