Fix the “Clobber” Error When Reinstalling VMware Tools on Linux

When you reinstall or upgrade VMware Tools on a Linux guest, the installer can stop with an error about existing kernel modules (such as vmxnet, vmci, or pvscsi) that it won’t overwrite. Tell it to replace them with the --clobber-kernel-modules option.

From the extracted vmware-tools-distrib folder, run:

./vmware-install.pl --clobber-kernel-modules=vmxnet,vmci,vmxnet3,pvscsi,vmmemctl

Related: installing VMware Tools on CentOS.