[CentOS] open-vm-tools on CentOS 6

Fri Nov 7 18:35:01 UTC 2014
Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
wrote:

>
> Am 07.11.2014 um 19:05 schrieb Boris Epstein:
>
>  As far as which VMWare tools to use - the ones from VM Ware or the
>> open-vm-tools available through the EPEL - is there any consensus on what
>> is better? I know that for CentOS 7 you are told to use open-vm-tools but
>> what is the situation with CentOS 6?
>>
>
> open-vm-tools worked fine even with Fedora 9 in 2008
> that was long before RHEL6 existed at all
>
>
Reindl,

Thanks, that is good to know. However, aside from proving that there is
some history to the open-vm-tools this really doesn't reflect on the
compatibility of the current version.

Boris.