Updating and connecting VM to internet

Updating

See VMWare documentation on network types ("Understanding Common Networking Configurations").

To update:

1. Start the Virtual Network Editor, find or create a new network adapter that is NAT.
2. Change the VM's network settings to use this adapter (under Custom)
3. Start/restart the VM
4. Under System, Administration, Network, "Edit" the "Wired connection 1", set to DHCP instead of static address
5. Set the DNS servers: 10.4.14.10, 10.6.14.10 (as of 2016-03)
6. Apply
7. Under System, Administration, Server Settings, Services, go to Network and restart
8. Test internet connect with Firefox (Applications => Internet)
9. To Add or Remove, go to Applications, Add/Remove Software
10. To update Centos:
    1. su
    2. yum clean all
    3. yum update, then reboot
11. Alternatively, go to Applications, System Tools, Software Updater (but this does not update the version, say 6.6 to 6.7)
12. Change back to static IP (System, Administration, Network, "Edit" the Wired connection 1 device)
13. Change the VM settings back to the Host-Only virtiaul network adapter, restart

Note: you can do a version check with 

cat /etc/redhat-release