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Use CentOS distribution iso as yum repository on VMWare

I have CentOS 7.0 iso set used as CD/DVD in VMWare, and wanted to use the image as the source to install rpms to my VMWare instance. It appeared quite easy to do:

Even though the iso is used as the CD/DVD in the virtual machine and is "inserted", you still have to mount on the CentOS:
sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt
Now create a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/. E.g. sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo:
```
[CentOS-Media]
name=CentOS-Media
baseurl=file:///mnt/
enabled=1
```
You may have to clean all the caches to make sure the new repo is hooked up properly:
sudo yum clean all

That is pretty much it, yum shall be able to pick up your "CD/DVD" iso just as the other repositories.

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