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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


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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