The iso only has a tar file...
The repo at packages.vmware.com is what I was looking for! Whats the diff between "open-vm-tools" and "vmware-tools"?
Thanks!
Open tools don't contain VMware specific services like host communications. They only relate to the video, network, disk drivers. I would refer to the dos for specifics like setting up the repo getting gpg keys etc.
The tar and RPM files in the ISO may build code against the kernel sources. These are just the drivers ready to go for each supported kernel. If you build your own kernel you want to use the sources.
Even though the gpg key is installed and imported, I get the follwoing error from yum?
Public key for vmware-tools-8.0.0-164009.165940.el5.i686.rpm is not installed
Did you add a specific location in your repo file for the gpg key. Did you import it from the same location. Since you probably trust vmware you could use --nogpgcheck or disable it in the repo file.
