In article 4E611015.2030107@gmail.com, carlopmart carlopmart@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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 ...
OK, thanks.
And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not supported for vmware anymore.
Mainly because it's a test system at home on which I've had VMware server installed for a couple of years already, and have had no reason to change (perhaps until now). It was free at the time. I haven't investigated the cost of ESXi. If I were to move to that, could I use my existing virtual machines unchanged?
Cheers Tony