Tested with VMware Tools v.5.5.3 (VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz). 1. Install software needed by VMware Tools Note: you need to boot the 1-1 kernel from grub for this to work. Install packages to build the kernel modules yum install gcc kernel-devel Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers uname -r # running kernel rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers If the two versions do