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.
Thanks, Fletch
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:
Have you tried open-vm-tools from here?
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2007-December/000158.html
Akemi
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:
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
Akemi Yagi wrote:
Thanks that got me a bit further but still running into dependency errors:
This is my kernel: 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen i686
This is the error message:
Missing Dependency: open-vm-tools-kmod-common >= 0 is needed by package kmod-open-vm-tools
Any idea where I can this this rpm??
Thanks, Fletch
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:
First of all ,you don't want to install the xen kernel as a guest. Just get the standard kernel or kernel-vm. Second, the open-vm-tools rpms for the latest kernel 2.6.18-53.1.14 are not available yet.
Akemi
Akemi Yagi wrote:
Booting the non-xen kernel did the trick- well at least regular vmware tools works fine now. But at a later date I would like to learn about the VM abilities of xen and right now I know almost zero. Any good faqs for someone just getting started? Thanks, Fletch
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