Etactiks: VMware Tools Installation on Oracle Linux Fails

VMware Tools installation on Oracle Linux fails. The vmware-install.pl installation script causes errors like below.

Searching for GCC...
The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary.

Searching for a valid kernel header path...
The path "" is not a valid path to the 2.6.32-200.13.1.el5uek kernel headers.

Solution:

Update Linux as below:

yum -y install gcc
yum -y install kernel-uek-devel-`uname -r`
yum -y install kernel-uek-headers-`uname -r`

And then repeat installation.

After completing installation, verify the version of VMware tools installed as below.

vmware-toolbox

Restart VMware tools if required.

/etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart.

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