installing vmware tools on asterisk

[1x1x1]

I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to linux so I need some help with this

how do I install the vmware tools on asterisk (its using centOS (which I'm guessing from what I've read is basicly free red hat)

[DSTAVERT]

When you select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools ESXi should try to mount the VMware tools ISO file in the Guest. You will need to untar the vmware tools files and manually install them. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1018414

Instead I would set up the vmware-tools repository and just use YUM to install and keep them upgraded.

http://www.vmware.com/download/packages.html for directions on setting that up.

[1x1x1]

thanks I'll have to read over it and figure out how to do it

as I said I'm a linux noob

I've used vmware via esxi a fair bit but haven't used a linux os on it yet

[DSTAVERT]

Here is a good step by step.

http://aaronwalrath.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/install-open-source-vmware-tools-on-red-hat-and-scientific-linux-6/

You will need to change the URL to point to your version of Centos and ESXi. Centos 5 will be the same as rhel5 Just copy the url and paste into your browser. Move up or down in the directory listings until you have it right. Once you are pointed to the right combination just copy the URL from your browser and pase it in over the baseurl entry.

[vmware-tools]
name=VMware Tools
baseurl=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1latest/rhel6/i686
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

You might have an easier time if you change gpgcheck=0

Once you have the the repo set up you can install tools following the directions.

[1x1x1]

thanks this seems to be working great

easy walk through even someone like me that hasn't used linux hardly at all can do it

now just to sort out how to make asterisk do what I want

[1x1x1]

well it looked like it was working but I'm not sure

it said no more mirrors to try

nevermind editied the link with the one the KB lead to and it looks to have worked

I must have been missing something before

though the vcenter console says unmanaged (I haven't seen that before but I'm guessing its fine)

[DSTAVERT]

1x1x1 wrote:

well it looked like it was working but I'm not sure

it said no more mirrors to try

nevermind editied the link with the one the KB lead to and it looks to have worked

I must have been missing something before

though the vcenter console says unmanaged (I haven't seen that before but I'm guessing its fine)

Since it is installed outside vSphere / vCenter you will be managing the updates. Once you are working any time you update the guest YUM will take care of updating tools.

[jurness]

I am in the same situation with Asterisk on CentOS. When I attempt to run VMWare tools installer on the VM from within iSphere I get this error:

Call "VirtualMachine.MountToolsInstaller" for object "oak-svm-lin22" on vCenter Server "virtualcenter.tomsawyer.com" failed.

No VMware Tools package is available. The VMware Tools package is not available for this guest operating system.

The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.

Fair enough, so I try doing YUM as noted above and and it appears to install correctly and I verified with rpm:

[root@oak-svm-lin22 ~]# rpm -qva | grep vmware

vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-utilities-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-drv-mouse-12.6.4.0-0.341836.el5

vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-nox-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-tools-nox-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-drv-display-10.16.7.0-0.341836.el5

vmware-tools-common-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-tools-8.3.7-341836.el6

So how come it is not running? I did a search for vmware-tools-config.pl thinking that may be what is needed to complete the installation, but that doesn't exist on the file system of the machine in question. Can I just copy it over from elsewhere or is there meant to be another method via YUM?

What am I missing here?

Thanks,

John