1. Auto network discovery there is an app called dhclient. It will easily discovery ip address and launch network right away dhclient -v
2. install Gnome gui
yum -y groupinstall “X Window System” “Desktop” “General Purpose Desktop”
3.start gui on startup
nano /etc/inittab
change id to 5
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:3:initdefault:
4.installing vmware tools in vmware choose Install VMware tools
su
yum -y install perl
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
mkdir /installs
cp VMware*.tar.gz /installs
cd /installs/
tar -zxvf VMware*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox
restart pc for the default values I kept pressing on entep r