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