RHEL vmtools rpm's

[Ritmo2k]

Anyone know a source for such a beast? Is that planned?

Thanks!

[DSTAVERT · Accepted solution]

You can install from the VI client. RT click Install upgrade vmware tools.

There are also OSP packages.

http://www.vmware.com/download/packages.html

[AntonVZhbankov]

There is rpm on standard .iso that automatically mounts on VMware Tools installation.

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[DSTAVERT]

You are probably looking for the OSP

Add repository and update with YUM

[Ritmo2k]

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!

[AntonVZhbankov]

Looks like contents of this iso depends on OS type. I definitely saw .rpm here many times.

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[DSTAVERT]

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.

[Ritmo2k]

Ahh, found the answer!

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf

Thanks!

[DSTAVERT]

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.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to VMware Tools OS-Specific Packaging

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[Ritmo2k]

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

Seen that before?

[DSTAVERT]

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.

[Ritmo2k]

Yeah, it was setup right, I just disabled it...

Thanks!