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LaurenMalhoit
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RHEL 6 and VMware Tools

Hi All,

I have some Linux RHEL 6 servers in a vSphere 5 environment.  There's something with RHEL 6 that doesn't start VMware tools automatically.  Has anyone run into this?  Any thoughts?

Thanks!

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LaurenMalhoit
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Figured it out.  Install gcc, kernel-headers, kernel-devel and then re-install vmware tools.  After a reboot everything came up fine.

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michaelstump
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I wrote a post on this topic (well, specifically for fedora, but same process if you've got yum): http://theeagerzero.blogspot.com/2013/01/installing-vmtools-on-fedora-17.html.

mike

Data Center Virtualization with VMware - theeagerzero.blogspot.com
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