Since it's hard for me to tell in what state your vm began (e.g. NIC settings), and how it was configured/changed since then, it might be troublesome to figure out without lots of back-and-forth. Since I'm assuming you just built the VM, and if you don't mind starting over with a fresh one, then you can follow these steps and be up and running in no time:
Create a new VM - the O.S. type should be RHEL 5 32bit.
Create NICs - make them Flexible.
During setup, the NICs will be detected as PCNet32 and whatnot, so they will work while we do updates and whatnot...
1: After ClearOS is installed, complete the WebConfig to setup networking and device properties. Do not configure or setup anything else, you'll do that after we have VMWare Tools installed.
2: Download PuTTY (www.putty.nl) or your choice of SSH client, and SSH into the IP address of the ClearOS setup. (you can also do this all through the vSphere client console, but PuTTY lets you adjust the screen size and you can copy/paste the commands I'm typing below).
Login with root and the password you typed in during the initial install.
3: type:
yum upgrade
(answer yes)
yum install gcc kernel-devel
(answer yes)
uname -r
rpm -q kernel-devel
(make sure the versions of the above two match exactly)
4: Now, using the vSphere Client, do the "Guest -> Install Vmware tools" fun stuff...
5: Returning back to the SSH / vSphere console session:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/
cd /mnt/cdrom/
cp -rp VM*.tar.gz /tmp
cd /tmp
tar -zxvf VM (hit the TAB key after typing VM (all caps, no space) to fill in the full name, ex: VMwareTools-4.0.0-208167.tar.gz, or just type it yourself)
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/
mkdir 1
cp vmxnet.tar 1
cd 1
tar -xvf vmxnet.tar
nano -w vmxnet-only/compat_netdevice.h
Comment out the line as per: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3977
(add a /* before, and a */ after:)
struct napi_struct {
int dummy;
};
So it will look like this:
/*
struct napi_struct {
int dummy;
};
*/
Now, hit CTRL-O to save, and CTRL-X to exit nano
rm vmxnet.tar
tar -cvf vmxnet.tar vmxnet-only/
mv vmxnet.tar (answer yes to overwrite)
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl --default
And that will build the tools - with all the default choices...
After it's done, you'll see a message about what you need to do to change your networking. You can follow that (if you used an SSH session - copy those lines and type them into the console session, you'll lose your connection). If you are using the console, write the lines down since the second you do the stop networking command, the lines will go off screen...
Let me know if you need any other assistance.
