Just some quick notes on creating a CentOS VM and making needed changes

yum update
yum upgrade
yum install https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
yum install open-vm-tools nano tree htop wget curl net-tools lsof python35u python35u-pip
nano /etc/sysconfig/selinux
systemctl disable firewalld
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl status firewalld
reboot

Then use:

nmtui

To configure static network.

NOTE: Firewalld may not come with minimal CentOS