Verify that VMware has connected the linux.iso file to your CD/DVD: Open the VM | Settings | Hardware tab for your CentOS VM and select the CD/DVD device. It is not the same as the CentOS ISO file you downloaded to install CentOS.) VMware will automatically find and connect a VMware Tools linux.iso file to your virtual CD/DVD device. If, instead, there is a box at the bottom of your screen talking about the Tools, close it. If there is a Question box, click Install. Take a screen capture of what it says (or write it down) so you can follow the directions. Sometimes there is no Question box and some information appears in a small box on the bottom of your VMware window. VMware will sometimes (not always) put up a Question box saying Click Install to connect the VMware Tools Installer CD to the virtual machine.

In your host O/S that is running VMware select the VMware menu item VM | Install VMware Tools. We will use VMware to connect the VMware Tools ISO file to our virtual CD/DVD device: 4 Connect the VMware Tools linux.iso Index

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