Re: [CentOS] open-vm-tools on CentOS 6

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:

Am 07.11.2014 um 19:05 schrieb Boris Epstein:

As far as which VMWare tools to use - the ones from VM Ware or the

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open-vm-tools available through the EPEL - is there any consensus on what is better? I know that for CentOS 7 you are told to use open-vm-tools but what is the situation with CentOS 6?

open-vm-tools worked fine even with Fedora 9 in 2008 that was long before RHEL6 existed at all

Reindl,

Thanks, that is good to know. However, aside from proving that there is some history to the open-vm-tools this really doesn't reflect on the compatibility of the current version.

Boris.