Akemi Yagi wrote: >> > >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > Booting the non-xen kernel did the trick- well at least regular vmware tools works fine now. But at a later date I would like to learn about the VM abilities of xen and right now I know almost zero. Any good faqs for someone just getting started? Thanks, Fletch