If you are willing to walk a little on the wild side,
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
Is run by vmware, but it isn't their "official" release set; some things
are missing.
Pat
On 04/29/2011 08:55 AM, Larry Linder wrote:
Down load their evaluation set or just buy it and load it.
Works perfectly from their web site.
Larry Linder
On Friday 29 April 2011 3:50 am, Ahmed El Zein wrote:
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 19:44 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Lukas Press<[email protected]>
wrote:
On 04/09/2011 11:34 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta<[email protected]>:
Dear all,
I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed.
Can someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header
files, and under what path they will be installed?
Cheers,
Niko
kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages, both available in sl repos.
The install script will complain that the path to the c header files
are wrong if you install the header files midway through the process,
even if you put the correct path in (/usr/include i think?). If this
is happening cancel the install and re-run the vmware-install.pl script
after installing the correct packages; it should pick up the header
files automatically then.
Regards
Chris
There's also a bit of nastiness when you update kernels: VMWare has
not selected to incorporate the 'vmware-modules' init script I sent
them, that re-runs the VMware configuration at boot time in case
you're running a new kernel. This is particularly dangerous if you're
using the vmxnet network drivers rather than e1000: the guest host
will be unavailable after a kernel upgrade and reboot until the
configuration tool is re-run, and if you have the wrong network setup,
your hostname will be wrong and you'll have to reboot *AGAIN*. to get
all your services configured correctly.
If you are using ESX (as I am), then you might want to look at the
repository at:
http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html
This way you get automatic updates when you upgrade the kernel.
