After I upgraded our hosts to 4.1 I wanted to upgrade vmware tools, but I can't find the installation rpm ?
There are only 2 files listed on the cdrom (mounted using Guest -> Install/Upgrade VMware Tools)
-rrr-- 1 root root 1987 May 9 07:38 manifest.txt
-rrr-- 1 root root 90569985 May 9 07:38 VMwareTools-8.3.2-257589.tar.gz
I also downloaded VMware-tools-linux-8.3.2-257589.iso from download.vmware.com, but this iso image only has the .tar.gz file.
Any hints where I can find the rpm for the latest VMware Tools ?
Hello.
Have you checked in the package repository?
Good Luck!
Thanks I have installed the openvm packages.
Starting with vSphere 4 Update 2 and vSphere 4.1, the mounted VMware Tools CD no longer comes with an .rpm installer. That installer has been depricated per the vSphere 4 Update 2 release notes. http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx40_u2_rel_notes.html#installation
The workaround is by gunzip -ing the tar.gz file, and then extracting the contents and running the extracted installer. This does automatically call the vmware-config-tools.pl script so that is nice.
Could you please elaborate and tell me how you run the extracted installer?
What is the path of it and how do I run it exactly...?
thanks a lot,
Omri
The first step is to mount the installer. Then, you need to copy the tar.gz file from the CDROM to your /tmp directory or somewhere else you can write to.
Next, you need to gunzip the tar.gz file to create a .tar file.
gunzip VMwareTools-buildnumber.tar.gz
That should create a file named like VMwareTools-buildnumber.tar
After that, you can extract the files. It should be something like tar -xf VMwareTools-buildnumber.tar
That will extract the files to /tmp
Look for the installer in the extracted file structure. This is off the top of my head. Let me know if you have issues, and I will see if I can try it out to give you better detail.
There should also be a readme file in there.
Matt
VMwareTools-8.3.2-257589.tar.gz sounds like the Workstation Tools. Don't install that one.
1) Right click on the VM, goto Guest, Install/Upgrade VMware tools.
2) That will mount a CDROM on the VM Guest with the VMwareTools*.tar..gz
3) Copy VMwareTools*.tar.gz to /tmp
4) cd /tmp
5) tar zxfv VMwareTools*.tar.gz
6) cd vmware-tools-distrib
7) ./vmware-install.pl --default
That should install the VMware tools for you.
Thanks