In article <4E611015.2030107 at gmail.com>, carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/02/2011 07:12 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > I have an instance of VMware server 1.0.10 hosted on CentOS 5, and it > > runs fine, with guests of CentOS 4, CentOS5 or Win2000. > > > > I have just created a new VM and installed CentOS6 on it, which also runs > > fine, except that I can't build the VMware tools on it. I get compilation > > errors when compiling the kernel modules, due to changes in the definition > > of struct net_device among other things. > > Short response: no. You can't install vmware tools from vmware server. > Only vmware tools from ESXi 5 works for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6.x ... OK, thanks. > And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not > supported for vmware anymore. Mainly because it's a test system at home on which I've had VMware server installed for a couple of years already, and have had no reason to change (perhaps until now). It was free at the time. I haven't investigated the cost of ESXi. If I were to move to that, could I use my existing virtual machines unchanged? Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org