Install latest open-vm-tools from source on CentOS 7

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Remove existing open-vm-tools:
```
sudo yum remove open-vm-tools
```

Install open-vm-tools dependencies:

yum install build-essential libmspack-devel libxml2-devel \ 
xmlsec1-devel libXext-devel libXinerama-devel libXi-devel \ 
libcurl-devel curl protobuf-compiler protobuf protobuf-devel \
grpc-cpp rpc-plugins grpc-devel containerd-devel libtool-ltdl-devel \
glib2-devel pam-devel

Download latest open-vm-tools source:

wget https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/download/stable-12.1.0/open-vm-tools-12.1.0-20219665.tar.gz

Uncompress tar ball:

tar xvf open-vm-tools-12.1.0-20219665.tar.gz

Build open-vm-tools:

cd open-vm-tools*
autoreconf -i
./configure --without-x
make
sudo make install && sudo ldconfig

Create vmtoolsd.service in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware
Documentation=http://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
ConditionVirtualization=vmware
Requires=vgauthd.service
After=vgauthd.service
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=cloud-init-local.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
TimeoutStopSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Also=vgauthd.service

Create vgauthd.service in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=VGAuth Service for open-vm-tools
Documentation=http://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
ConditionVirtualization=vmware
PartOf=vmtoolsd.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/VGAuthService -s
TimeoutStopSec=5

[Install]
RequiredBy=vmtoolsd.service

Reload systemd units:
```
systemctl daemon-reload
```

Enable and start units:

systemctl enable --now vgauthd
systemctl enable --now vmtoolsd

Check open-vm-tools version with either vmtoolsd or vmware-rpctool:

vmtoolsd --version
VMware Tools daemon, version 12.1.0.37487 (build-20219665)

vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.vmtools.description"
open-vm-tools 11.0.5 build 15389592

vmware-rpctool "info-get guestinfo.vmtools.description"
open-vm-tools 11.0.5 build 15389592

Finally, check with the vss-cli:

vss-cli --columns moref,name,folder.path,tools_running_status,tools_version  compute vm ls -f name=vss-vm12345
moref     name               folder.path       tools_running_status      tools_version
--------  -----------------  ----------------  ----------------------  ---------------
vm-12345  1803P-vss-vm12345  Public > Client1  guestToolsRunning                 12320

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