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

[Fletch Bowling]

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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
>   

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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