In this how to, I am going to share how to install VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 5.0 Update 1 (build 614080) on CentOS 5.7 32-bit hardware platform. You need libfuse.so.2 library to install VDDK. Please make sure you login as root.

1. Download rpmforge-release package
wget -c http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

2. RPM install DAG’s GPG key
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

3. RPM verify the package you have downloaded
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

4. RPM install RPMforge
rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

5. Yum install fuse
yum -y install fuse fuse-libs

6. Download VMware-vix-disklib-5.0.0-614080.i386.tar.gz Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 5.0 U1 from
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/

7. Extract VMware-vix-disklib-5.0.0-614080.i386.tar.gz
tar xvfz VMware-vix-disklib-5.0.0-614080.i386.gz -C /tmp

8. Install Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 5.0 U1
cd /tmp/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

9. Include Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 5.0 U1 Linux Library
echo '/usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib32' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/vmware-vix-disklib.conf
ldconfig

Now, you can run vmware-mount and vmware-vdiskmanager. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy it.