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  • 1.  Linux VMware Tools Supported RPM Installation

    Posted Apr 25, 2012 02:42 AM

       I'd like to install VMware tools for ESXi 5 without having a gnu tool chain on my linux system.  Its a red hat like linux (actually it's embedded WindRiver linux, with is linux except it doesn't crash all the time).    Is there an esxi 5 rpm install I can try?  If not, what is the precise minimum tool set, library and header files I'll need to install?

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: Linux VMware Tools Supported RPM Installation

    Posted Apr 25, 2012 08:01 AM

    You can try to use rpm from the site VMware tools latest for your kernel

    But I prefer to install vmware tools c using a script vmware-install.pl

    I do not know the package manager your distro, but if it's yum, you can try to do following
    1) Install packages to build the kernel modules

    yum install gcc kernel-devel

    2) Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers

    uname -r             # running kernel
    rpm -q kernel-devel  # installed kernel headers

    3) If the two versions do not match, run

    yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel
    reboot

    4) Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later)

    ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/include

    And the actual installation

    5) In menu VM go to "Install VMware Tools"

    6) From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive

    mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
    7) Extract VMware Tools to /tmp
    tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz
    8) Unmount the virtual cd drive
    umount /mnt
    9) Now run the installer
    cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
    ./vmware-install.pl