Install VMware Tools in SUSE without installing additional packages
Installing VMware tools on Linux virtual machines can be challenging compared to installing the tools on Windows VMs. Unfortunately the differences of various different Linux distributions do not allow a universal point and click installer to be created. Each distribution has package dependencies that must be met, and those packages are installed by different means in their respective operating systems.
In my experience a few of the Linux operating systems will complete the tools install without pre-installing the dependencies. SUSE has been one of these distributions. It seems more and more companies are both performing P2V migrations of SUSE servers or building new VMs with the OS. This fact, in turn, means that understanding how to install VMware Tools in the SUSE OS has become a more frequently asked question. I wrote the following tutorial for a client running openSUSE. Although this was written for the open source version, use this post as an example for VMware Tools installation on SLES and other Linux distributions as well.
This openSUSE VMware Tools installation tutorial installs the base code to establish VMware Tools communication with VirtualCenter. To enable the complete VMware Tools feature set the gcc, binutils, make, and kernel source packages must be installed prior to running the vmware-configure-tools.pl script. This tutorial does not explain how to install these packages, but instead explains how to complete the VMware Tools install without them. This tutorial was written for a openSUSE server using the KDE desktop.
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