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

[Fletch Bowling]

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>  > 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