I use www.clarkconnect.com as a linux firewall/router within vmware and have been for about a year..
I upgraded from esxi 3.5 to 4.0 but I cant get the vmware-tools to install.. basicallu clarkconnect does not include udev and it looks like the vmware-tools script requires udev
All the modules build except pvscsi and vmxnet3.
The vmware-tools-config script fails to complete with the following error
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Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
No X install found.
Unable to copy the source file
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/udev/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules to the
destination file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules.
Execution aborted.
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I have tried to install udev but it is not part of this distro
apt-get install udev
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
E: Package udev has no installation candidate
Package udev has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
Can anyone suggest a workaround? clarkconnect is based on centos 4.4 is there a 4.4 rpm kicking around anywhere.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Not sure if this will help repo
Which version of CC.
4.3 Enterprise... but community is the same base o/s
Were the repo files of any value?
CC version was about are you using 4.3 or 5
Just quickly tried it, I get this
# rpm -Uvh vmware-tools-nox-8.0.0-140815.148942.el4.i686.rpm vmware-tools-common-8.0.0-140815.148942.el4.i686.rpm open-vm-tools-nox-8.0.0-140815.148942.el4.i686.rpm open-vm-tools-common-8.0.0-140815.148942.el4.i686.rpm open-vm-tools-kmod-8.0.0-140815.148942.el4.i686.rpm
warning: vmware-tools-nox-8.0.0-140815.148942.el4.i686.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature: NOKEY, key ID 66fd4949
Preparing... ###########################################
1:open-vm-tools-kmod ###########################################
2:open-vm-tools-common ###########################################
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
3:vmware-tools-common ###########################################
4:open-vm-tools-nox ###########################################
5:vmware-tools-nox ###########################################
# /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: line 24: /usr/lib/vmware-tools/services.sh: No such file or directory
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: line 37: main: command not found
I am running CC 4.3 I am waiting for final release before moving to 5.
CentOS release 4.4 (Final)
try http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/3.5u4/rhel4/i686/index.html
Since 5 will support yum it will much easier to update tools.
Thanks so much for your help.. the v3.5 link you sent resulted in the same cpio error.. but then I realised that I should clear out /etc/vmware-tools and /usr/lib/vmware-tools dir and it installed ok...
So I went back to the v4 links and tried the same trick.. these installed ok too
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration:
Guest vmxnet fast network device:
VM communication interface socket family:
Guest operating system daemon:
Not all the services start up but I guess the importnt ones do? At least now I get IP information in VIC.
Can you confirm that I am good to go without these services for the time being?
Posted the wrong link. I was going from the 4 beta information and in the last one pointed to the 3.5 repository
Try this page http://www.vmware.com/download/packages.html
and especially http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf
It won't happen again
np
I took the 8.0.0 rpms with the same result
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration:
Guest vmxnet fast network device:
VM communication interface socket family:
Guest operating system daemon:
What are the consequences of the above failed services not being available?
I am guessing this isn't a machine you can restart. Mismatched with an updated kernel
The services that did not start are provide VMware specific functionality (communications from host to guest if I remember from the documentation) but you'd have to look to see. Not critical but again check the docs.
Thanks for reporting the problem
please refer following guide for the VMware tools os specific package.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf