It is a useful tool. However, the difficulty is that our ENV has multiple versions of ESX hosts, 3.5, 4.1 and 5.0. The guest OS has no clue what version of ESX it is running on, so how can puppet server push a correct version of vmware tools to a client?
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Michael Stahnke <stah...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Jakov Sosic <jso...@srce.hr> wrote: >> On 09/19/2012 11:55 PM, Hai Tao wrote: >>> >>> There seems to be a few vmware tools installation modules. Has someone >>> used these modules to install VMware tools? >>> >>> Searching http://forge.puppetlabs.com ... >>> NAME DESCRIPTION >>> >>> AUTHOR KEYWORDS >>> vchoi-vmware Puppet module to handle installation, upgrade >>> and reconfiguration of vmware tools on vmware virtual nodes. >>> @vchoi virtualization vmware vmware-tools >>> vmware_tools vmtools >>> razorsedge-vmwaretools Puppet VMware Tools OSP Module >>> >>> @razorsedge vmware vmware-tools vmware_tools vmtools >>> rhel CentOS SuSE OEL >>> puppetlabs-vcenter VMware vCenter installation and management >>> >>> @puppetlabs windows vmware vcenter vsphere >>> 5UbZ3r0-vmwaretools This module handles the installation the >>> VMware Tools Operating System Specific >>> @5UbZ3r0 debian virtualization rhel CentOS >>> vmware vmware-tools vmwaretools >>> puppetlabs-appdirector # VMware vFabric Application Directorâ >>> ¢ Puppet >>> Service >>> @puppetlabs vmware >>> >>> >>> How well does it work? >> >> >> It seems that nobody tried this already. I'm interested too... >> >> >> -- >> Jakov Sosic >> www.srce.unizg.hr >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> > > I don't know that I would endorse one over another, but Puppet Labs > did a module of the week post about one of them. > > http://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-razorsedge-vmwaretools/ > > That might be a good starting point. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- Hai Tao -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
