Running a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 virtual machine on a VMware host using open-vm-tools

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What is open-vm-tools?

The open-vm-tools package is a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers which improve user experience when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as a guest on a VMware vSphere ESX(i) hypervisor. The open-vm-tools package provides a secure and authenticated mechanism for performing various operations on the guest operating system fr...

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