Is it necessary to run VMware Tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests running in runlevel 3?

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Issue

  • Is it necessary to run VMware Tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests that are running in runlevel 3, given that it mostly addresses keyboard, video, mouse issues and users connect to the RHEL server via ssh?
  • I am running a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system on VMWare, do I always need to install VMWare Tools?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux as virtual guest operating system
  • VMWare virtualisation host

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