[CentOS-virt] help getting open-vm-tools installed

Fletch Bowling fletchb at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 19:48:07 UTC 2008


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 at 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.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Fletch
>>     
>
> Have you tried open-vm-tools from here?
>
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2007-December/000158.html
>
> Akemi
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