# Building CentOS boxes with bento

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/building-centos-boxes-with-bento/6942>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [September 29, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/building-centos-boxes-with-bento/6942 "2015-09-29T12:09:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sean\_Farrow1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@Sean\_Farrow1](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Sean_Farrow1)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/building-centos-boxes-with-bento/6942/1 "2015-09-29T12:09:35Z")

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Hi All,

I’m trying to build a CentOS 7.1 box with bento, I get an error when trying to install the vmware tools, can I just run packer build, or do I need to do something before then.  
Any help appreciated.  
Kind regards  
Sean.

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**Author:** ![tknerr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/tknerr/32/21_2.png) [@tknerr](https://discourse.chef.io/u/tknerr)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/building-centos-boxes-with-bento/6942/2 "2015-09-30T20:17:58Z")

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Hi Sean,

just guessing, but if you run `rake -T` you should see the available tasks,  
of which this one looks most promising:

> <https://github.com/chef/bento/blob/main/Rakefile#L31-L34>

HTH, Torben

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Sean Farrow [sean.farrow@seanfarrow.co.uk](mailto:sean.farrow@seanfarrow.co.uk)  
wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I’m trying to build a CentOS 7.1 box with bento, I get an error when  
> trying to install the vmware tools, can I just run packer build, or do I  
> need to do something before then.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Sean.