Akemi Yagi wrote:

Yes those are the tools I tried to install. Do you need the new kernels as well?

Thanks, Fletch

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:

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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

Have you tried open-vm-tools from here?

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2007-December/000158.html

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Akemi Yagi wrote:

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:

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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

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

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Akemi Yagi wrote:

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:

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Akemi Yagi wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Fletch Bowling fletchb@gmail.com wrote:

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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

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

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

Thanks! Fletch