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i’m looking for some help for installing the right version of VMware tools on my VMs

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What have you already tried?
Did you checked the VMware Site?

https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_newguest_tools_linux.html
or another option:

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On the commandline:

yum install open-vm-tools

http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/CentOS_7.html

Consider me corrected! Just to be sure, I checked my shell command history, this is what I actually did:

su root

yum -y install http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.1/repos/vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.0.0-2.x86_64.rpm

yum -y install vmware-tools-esx-nox

exit
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I try on Neth 7.2 and it’s ok, no way on the stable release

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On NethServer 6.7 you might try installing them from the EPEL repo.

Install EPEL repository:
yum localinstall http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm -y

Globally disable EPEL repository:
eorepo centos-{base,updates} nethserver-{base,updates}

Install open-vm-tools from EPEL repository:
yum --enablerepo=epel install open-vm-tools

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Check my edited reply

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Nice shot @jaapvdv!
But I think you missed a command:

yum install vmware-tools-esx-nox

:wink:

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So true, missed that one. Just corrected my earlier post.