Am 07.03.2013 21:51, schrieb Brian Reichert: >> so what - your host-OS is also not opensource > > For my employer, we have to overcome certain issues to utilize this > software, esp as there are no RPMs available from our vendor (CentOS).
your vendor CentOS or RHEL is not responsible for 3rd party software the vendor of your host system is VMware Inc. well, and if you have running ESX with a support contract you can bet taht VMware will tell you if you are in trouble "install the version which matches your current ESXi-host" > I don't have to agree with my employer's policies, I'm just suck > with them. maybe you should explain him technical facts >> saying that: look in the changelog, in a short you can expect >> that there is no way to install open-vm-tools on kernels >> of LTS guest systems becuse you will lack many things which >> are never in RHEL5/6 > > What does 'LTS' mean in this context? Long Term Support? > The NEWS file of open-vm-tools spans back to 2007.09.04. > RHEL5 was released six months prior, in 2007.3.14. which is a long time ago > Are you saying that in the last _five years_ no one's successfully > built any version of open-vm-rools for RHEL5? who knows and who cares since VMware Inc. ships binaries within ESXi and in public repos? open-vm-tools 2010.06.16 changes: * vmmemctl: Linux driver removed (it's now upstream) upstream = linux kernel but not the one for RHEL because it stays on patched old ones
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