I'm reading the VMware Operating System Specific Packages Guide for ESXi 5.0 and I'm a little confused.
I'm running Ubuntu guest operating systems (Lucid, Maverick, and Natty). The OSP guide says to install the package "vmware-tools-esx-kmods-kernel_release" (ie. vmware-tools-esx-kmods-generic) but this doesn't exist for ESXi 5.0.
Do I need to manually all nine kernel modules? (vmmemctl, vmci, vsock, vmblock, vmxnet3, pvscsi, vmxnet, vmhgfs, and vmsync)
Also, why do a lot of these modules not exist for ESXi 4.1? Are they new?
Install kmod and then use the below command to install rest of the components.
$ sudo apt-get install vmware-tools-esx
Hope this would be helpful
http://virtualvm.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/installing-vmware-osp-tools-in-esxi-5-0/
