diff --git a/centos-7.3-x86_64.json b/centos-7.3-x86_64.json
index d2725be9f..d2c3783f4 100644
--- a/centos-7.3-x86_64.json
+++ b/centos-7.3-x86_64.json
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@
       "source": "{{user `metadata`}}",
       "type": "file"
     },
+    {
+      "destination": "/tmp/VMwareTools-10.1.0-4449150.tar.gz",
+      "source": "VMwareTools-10.1.0-4449150.tar.gz",
+      "type": "file",
+	  "only": ["vmware-iso"]
+    },
     {
       "environment_vars": [
         "HOME_DIR=/home/vagrant",
@@ -148,7 +154,7 @@
         "scripts/centos/networking.sh",
         "scripts/common/vagrant.sh",
         "scripts/common/virtualbox.sh",
-        "scripts/common/vmware.sh",
+        "scripts/centos/vmware.sh",
         "scripts/common/parallels.sh",
         "scripts/centos/cleanup.sh",
         "scripts/common/minimize.sh"
diff --git a/scripts/centos/vmware.sh b/scripts/centos/vmware.sh
index 05fc1f040..4f7c47fcc 100644
--- a/scripts/centos/vmware.sh
+++ b/scripts/centos/vmware.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,26 @@
 #!/bin/sh -eux
 
+# set a default HOME_DIR environment variable if not set
+HOME_DIR="${HOME_DIR:-/home/vagrant}";
+
 case "$PACKER_BUILDER_TYPE" in
 vmware-iso|vmware-vmx)
-    yum install -y open-vm-tools;
-    mkdir /mnt/hgfs;
-    echo "platform specific vmware.sh executed";
+    mkdir -p /tmp/vmware-archive;
+    TOOLS_PATH="/tmp/VMwareTools-10.1.0-4449150.tar.gz";
+    VER="`echo "${TOOLS_PATH}" | cut -f2 -d'-'`";
+    MAJ_VER="`echo ${VER} | cut -d '.' -f 1`";
+
+    echo "VMware Tools Version: $VER";
+
+    tar xzf ${TOOLS_PATH} -C /tmp/vmware-archive;
+	ls -alh /tmp/vmware-archive;
+    if [ "${MAJ_VER}" -lt "10" ]; then
+        /tmp/vmware-archive/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl --default;
+    else
+        /tmp/vmware-archive/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl --default --force-install;
+    fi
+    rm -rf  /tmp/vmware-archive;
+	rm -rf /tmp/VMwareTools-10.1.0-4449150.tar.gz;
+    rm -f $HOME_DIR/*.iso;
+    ;;
 esac