On 09/02/2011 07:12 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
I have an instance of VMware server 1.0.10 hosted on CentOS 5, and it runs fine, with guests of CentOS 4, CentOS5 or Win2000.
I have just created a new VM and installed CentOS6 on it, which also runs fine, except that I can't build the VMware tools on it. I get compilation errors when compiling the kernel modules, due to changes in the definition of struct net_device among other things.
I saw a suggestion to use open-vm-tools, but looking at the RPMs on the Lucid site, it only talks about versions for ESX.
I could try compiling from source, but I wanted to check first whether anyone here has succeeded in installing VMware tools on CentOS 6 for VMware Server.
Cheers Tony
Short response: no. You can't install vmware tools from vmware server. Only vmware tools from ESXi 5 works for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6.x ...
And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not supported for vmware anymore.