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