VMware Communities: Message List - VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

jasonboche — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:10:38 GMT

doesn't the vmware-toolbox show you also!

For the 3rd time, no GUI.

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

jasonboche — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:09:38 GMT

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Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

ssdev — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:03:39 GMT

thanks for the answers, the
grep buildNr /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl

works for me.

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

ZippyDaMCT — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:20:20 GMT

doesn't the vmware-toolbox show you also!

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

rreynol — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:21:24 GMT

/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl in a linux VM contains the build number of vmware-tools. Search for "buildNr".

This is the case for ESX 2.5.2, I don't know if vmware-config-tools.pl had different variables defined in other ESX releases.

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

jasonboche — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:14:46 GMT

Just run the command "vmware-toolbox", vmware toolbox
GUI comes up. You can check the version in that GUI.
Hope this helps!.

He said in his original post he has no GUI thus no VMwaretoolbox can be run. That was the tricky part of the question.

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

BrianG — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:13:27 GMT

nice

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

mastermind — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:11:40 GMT

Just run the command "vmware-toolbox", vmware toolbox GUI comes up. You can check the version in that GUI. Hope this helps!.

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

BrianG — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:05:12 GMT

Show off!

Just Kidding - Great Job dude!

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

jasonboche — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:26:44 GMT

Run:

/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl

At the end it tells you the version.

Jas

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

jasonboche — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:37:19 GMT

Hey Jas

try /etc/vmware/vmware-guestd --help on the
guest

Does it give you an option to check version.

I cant get access to system right now!

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

BrianG — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:27:18 GMT

Hey Jas

try /etc/vmware/vmware-guestd --help on the guest

Does it give you an option to check version.

I cant get access to system right now!

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

jasonboche — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:08:33 GMT

Isolation.

There is no .vmx.

There is a way within Linux.

Still looking....

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

BrianG — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:05:55 GMT

Version should be in the vmx

Re: VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

jasonboche — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:59:16 GMT

Good question.

I'm going to see if I can figure this one out. I just happen to have a RedHat VM here with tools installed.........

VMware Tools version, for linux - how to determine

ssdev — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:53:38 GMT

I'd like to find a way to determine the version of the vmware tools installed in a linux guest OS.

Our OS does not have x, so the suggestion to run vmware-toolbox
and click about is no good.

I'm look for a command line way to get it.

thanks