Hey everyone,
I am building small dev environment on Workstation pro 16.
It includes nested XCP-NG 8.2 servers. I want to install open vm-tools on them so they can be managable via automation but for some reason it does not work.
I do tried installing the ones from the Centos 7 repo (because XCP-NG is based on that)
yum install open-vm-tools --enablerepo=base
but as the service is started it is reported dead.
How can i troubleshoot this?
I also tried installing the offline tool package that is mounted via CD.
Installation passed successfully but during configuration vmware-config-tools.pl it said "Can run only on virtual machines"
I disabled the check following this article, after which config passed successfully.
https://shazdba.blogspot.com/2015/07/error-configuration-program-is-to-be.html
But alas the tools are still not running.
Has anyone did it?
Can you provide any tips on how can i troubleshoot this further?
P.S.
It seems the tools does not detect vmware virtualization so i commented the check
#ConditionVirtualization=vmware
in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vmtoolsd.service
and
/etc/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service.requires/vgauthd.service
vgauthd service is now running but vmtools still reports dead.
