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

[Akemi Yagi]

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