CentOS 6.5 is based on RHEL 6.5; prior to CentOS 7, CentOS versions exactly match RHEL versions. The pattern changed with CentOS 7, which uses something like a build number: CentOS 7 (1406) is based on RHEL 7.0, CentOS 7 (1503) is based on RHEL 7.1, etc. You'll find all the details on the CentOS wiki (look for the "Archived Versions" section).
This information comes from a blog post I wrote some time ago.
First, create a Virtual Machine and do a fresh install of the same RHEL version on it. Make sure you perform a minimal installation so that the packages installed on the machine are kept to the minimum required for the machine to run.
Then, run the following commands on the machine:
[vm]# mkdir /root/tmppkg
[vm]# yum --downloadonly --downloaddir=/root/tmppkg install foobar
Yum will download Foobar and all its dependencies recursively, storing the RPMs in the directory mentioned above.
Create a repository from the bunch of packages downloaded by Yum.
[vm]# chown -R root:root /root/tmppkg
[vm]# createrepo /root/tmppkg
[vm]# chmod -R 755 /root/tmppkg
Transfer the tmppkg directory on the server (via USB thumb drive or CD-ROM) and put it in the /share directory. Then create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo as such:
[local]
name=Local repository
baseurl=file:///share/tmppkg
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
protect=1
Now you can install the Foobar package on the server in the usual way. The package manager will fetch all the necessary content from the newly created local repository:
[server]# yum install foobar
Once you’ve installed the package, the /share/tmppkg directory can be safely deleted.
Best Answer
open-vm-toolsis developed by VMware, see their GitHub page for details. That page provides the following answer to your question:So you should install
open-vm-toolsrather than the binary packages provided by VMware.This Red Hat customer portal page is also relevant (but you need a portal account to view it). See also this VMware knowledgebase article on the topic, which says
open-vm-tools...