If you install the minimum version of Red Hat Enterprise 7 as a VMware Workstation guest, you will have to overcome a number of obstacles to installing the VMware Tools. Firstly, no ifconfig utility is installed. To install this utility, install the net-tools package. # yum install net-tools Next, check to see if the open-vm-tools package was installed. If not install it from your DVD or ISO. You may have to first create a repo entry similar to the following: [dvd] name=red Hat Enterprise Linix [DVD] baseurl=file:///run/media/<FIXTHIS>/RHEL-7.0 Server.x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 and then run: # yum install open-vm-tools I found that
