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

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