Hi folks.
I've been looking around the forums and the net, but haven't found anything related to this.
We have a virtual appliance that's built off of a Linux RHEL4 base. We ship the latest VMware-Tools rpm as part of our updates to our customers.
Up until recently, we've used stock kernels, so shipping the stock VMware-Tools rpm worked fine.
Unfortunately, we've run into a couple of issues with the stock kernel that have required us to build a custom kernel (basically, the stock kernel + 1 patch). This has made it so that none of the standard VMware-Tools kernel modules load anymore. When running "vmware-config-tools.pl", it complains that none of the prebuilt modules work and tries to compile a new one.
Here's the catch....We don't (and won't) ship a compiler with our virtual appliance, so compilation at this point won't work.
Mind you, the compilation would work fine if there was a compiler, and as such, I would like to build the modules in house and then ship them out to the customer as part of our update mechanism.
Ideally, i'd like to create a custom VMware-Tools rpm, so that when we move back to a stock kernel (when the next rev of the stock kernel contains the fixes we need), we can just update the VMware-Tools rpm and keep going. Unfortunately, i haven't found a spec file or any other way to create a custom VMware-Tools rpm.
What do you suggest?
Thanks.
...alex...
