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Guideline to install VMWare Tools on RHEL 7.4
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How to install VMWare Tools on RHEL 7.4

Please register your RHEL version with RedHat first
First open Terminal and change permission to root then enter you password.

su -

Then update your system.

yum -y update

Install VMWare Tools

You may want to install gcc and kernel-devel before continue, in case you already installed it, just skip this step.
Run these 2 commands to install gcc and kernel-devel.

yum -y install perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel
yum -y install "kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)"

Mount VMWare Tools disk to virtual machine. Copy all the file to your local directory then extract the zip file VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz
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Run vmware-install.pl to install

./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl

Note

If you get these error while installing

Searching for GCC...
the path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary. 
Would you like to change it? [yes]

Or this one

Searching for a valid kernel header path...
The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 kernel headers.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

Make sure you have installed gcc and kernel-devel as described above. Stop and run the VMWare Tools install file vmware-install.pl again.

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