On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, Newbie to CentOS and attempting to run it under a windows xp host. I see there is a open version of vmware tools available but getting various dependency errors when attempting to install. the rpms.
Will these tools install for ver CentOS 5 or are they for an earlier version?
P.S. How closely does CentOS match Redhat binaries? VMware tools (from workstation 6) install just fine but could not be configured due to various errors.
Have you tried open-vm-tools from here?
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2007-December/000158.html
Yes those are the tools I tried to install. Do you need the new kernels as well?
Thanks, Fletch
You can tell for which kernel the kmod rpm is built for by looking at the name. For example,
kmod-open-vm-tools-0-0.20080123.2.6.18_53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm
is for kernel 2.6.18_53.1.13.el5.i686
Find the one that matches your running kernel (uname -rm).
Akemi