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

[Akemi Yagi]

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