I have set up a centOS 6.5 server using VMWare Workstation 9 on a Windows 8.1 host laptop. When trying to use yum to ins
centOS 6.5 server
VMWare Workstation 9
Windows 8.1
yum
Comment out metadata_expire directive in /etc/yum.conf and do yum clean all. This worked for me. Not sure how.