On Friday 18 September 2009 17:58:53 Denis Leroy wrote:
> On 09/18/2009 05:28 AM, Guerney D Hunt wrote:
> > I need VMtools for Fedora core 9. Fedora Core 9 is not supported by
> > VMware tools, that is why we are using open tools. Where do I find the
> > init scripts? As I said, we have the open tools running on Core 9 for
> > VMware 6.05, but they (the same package, we tried a few) fail on 6.5X.
>
> Hi,
>
> You can base your work on the open-vm-tools Fedora packages (at
> http://rpmfusion.org/), although I started packaging it for F-10, not FC-9.
>
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/10/SRPMS/repoview/open-v
> m-tools.html
>
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/10/SRPMS/repoview/open-v
> m-tools-kmod.html
>
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Totally awesome, I had no idea.
That works :)
[r...@fc11-64 Download]# yum install open-vm-tools.x86_64
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
...
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:0.0.0.179896-2.fc11 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: open-vm-tools-kmod >= 0.0.0.179896 for package:
open-vm-tools-0.0.0.179896-2.fc11.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libvmtools.so.0()(64bit) for package: open-vm-
tools-0.0.0.179896-2.fc11.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libguestlib.so.0()(64bit) for package: open-vm-
tools-0.0.0.179896-2.fc11.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6 set to be
updated
--> Processing Dependency: kmod-open-vm-tools-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 >=
0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6 for package: kmod-open-vm-
tools-0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6.x86_64
---> Package open-vm-tools-libs.x86_64 0:0.0.0.179896-2.fc11 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-open-vm-tools-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64.x86_64
0:0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
=============================================================================================================================
Installing:
open-vm-tools x86_64
0.0.0.179896-2.fc11 rpmfusion-free-updates 819 k
Installing for dependencies:
kmod-open-vm-tools x86_64
0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6 rpmfusion-free-updates 7.1 k
kmod-open-vm-tools-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 x86_64
0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6 rpmfusion-free-updates 124 k
open-vm-tools-libs x86_64
0.0.0.179896-2.fc11 rpmfusion-free-updates 346 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================
Install 4 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total size: 1.3 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : open-vm-tools-libs-0.0.0.179896-2.fc11.x86_64
1/4
Installing : open-vm-tools-0.0.0.179896-2.fc11.x86_64
2/4
Installing : kmod-open-vm-
tools-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64-0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6.x86_64
3/4
Installing : kmod-open-vm-tools-0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6.x86_64
4/4
Installed:
open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:0.0.0.179896-2.fc11
Dependency Installed:
kmod-open-vm-tools.x86_64 0:0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6
kmod-open-vm-tools-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64.x86_64 0:0.0.0.179896-1.fc11.6
open-vm-tools-libs.x86_64 0:0.0.0.179896-2.fc11
Complete!
[r...@fc11-64 Download]# service vmtoolsd start
Starting Open-vm-tools guest daemon: [ OK ]
Thanks, It's just what I wanted. Vmware tools doesn't work for my this dist
but this does.
BTW: I agree about fc9. It so sux for vmware.
Thanks again Leroy.
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