Installing VMware Tools on TufinOS

VMware Tools can be used on TufinOS. However, their use is at your own discretion and any impact on performance resulting from installing or using them is your responsibility.

Install open-vm-tools (recommended by VMware)

  1. Install the following RPMs using the format sudo rpm -ivh <path>. Find the appropriate links using a web search on each of the names.

    • fuse-libs-2.9.2-11.el7.x86_64.rpm

    • libtool-ltdl-2.4.2-22.el7_3.x86_64.rpm

    • libmspack-0.5-0.8.alpha.el7.x86_64.rpm

    • xmlsec1-1.2.20-7.el7_4.x86_64.rpm

    • xmlsec1-openssl-1.2.20-7.el7_4.x86_64.rpm

    • fuse-2.9.2-11.el7.x86_64.rpm

    After installing the above RPMs, install open-vm-tools:

    • open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

  2. Start the service:

    sudo systemctl start vmtoolsd.service

Follow the steps in the VMware official documentation

  1. Go to https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/index.html

  2. Locate and select the link Installing VMware Tools.

  3. Locate and select the link Manually Installing VMware Tools on a Linux Virtual Machine.

  4. If you don't succeed in locating the above links, do a web search on "Manually Installing VMware Tools on a Linux Virtual Machine".

  5. Continue with the steps in the VMware documentation.