Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

[Joseph L. Casale]

>open-vm-tools may be a solution.  The kmod package included is kABI-tracking.
>
>http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/open-vm-tools/
>
>Johnny Hughes has been providing it since early 2008.  I don't
>remember if he announced it at some point.
>
>The last version there is dated Oct 2008.  I tried to build the
>current version but encountered a (minor?) issue with one kernel
>module that was added recently.  I then started working on the issue
>with Alan Bartlett.  However, I halted the plan thinking this did not
>have a high demand and, therefore, cannot be given a high priority.

http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.0/rhel5/

Vmware is providing current packages now...
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Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:

> VMwareTools is a kludge. It is sad to see how bad a piece of software can be
> written by a big company like EMC. Here is a list:

open-vm-tools may be a solution.  The kmod package included is kABI-tracking.

http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/open-vm-tools/

Johnny Hughes has been providing it since early 2008.  I don't
remember if he announced it at some point.

The last version there is dated Oct 2008.  I tried to build the
current version but encountered a (minor?) issue with one kernel
module that was added recently.  I then started working on the issue
with Alan Bartlett.  However, I halted the plan thinking this did not
have a high demand and, therefore, cannot be given a high priority.

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

[Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux]

Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:

Don't forget that everytime you will upgrade your kernel or change 
kernel version, you will have to re-run this command to ensure the 
display and network settings, for the network if you don't do that you 
run in 100MBs mode but after the install of the VMware module in the 
kernel, you run at 1GB speed...
Like Dag Wieers told a few minutes ago in this list, it is not the best 
way to work but with VMware it is like that it needs to be done...
> thank's very much, every thing is working properly for the moment.
>
> thanks for all of you for help :)
>
> 2009/6/21 Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux  >
>
> Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:
>
> Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type:
> vmware-config-tools.pl
> (localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!)
> And you will have to answer a few questions and the Display features
> will also be prompted to you allowing to change the resolution...
>
> Voilà, Mr Génie Informatique ;-)
>
>
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Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

[Samir RHAOUSSI]

thank's very much, every thing is working properly for the moment.

thanks for all of you for help :)

2009/6/21 Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux 

> Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:
>
> Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl
> (localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!)
> And you will have to answer a few questions and the Display features
> will also be prompted to you allowing to change the resolution...
>
> Voilà, Mr Génie Informatique ;-)
>
>

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Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

[Dag Wieers]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Jeff wrote:


On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:


I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE
i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs
successfully.
but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution..
(the max is 800 * 600)
any help?


You must run /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl to complete the installation.


VMwareTools is a kludge. It is sad to see how bad a piece of software can 
be written by a big company like EMC. Here is a list:


 1. You have to run vmware-config-tools.pl from the console (typing in
commands instead of copy&pasting them)

 2. You cannot automate this process because of the above (even though we
succeeded to fool vmware-config-tools.pl so it thinks it is run from a
console, with some success)

 3. vmware-config-tools.pl brings down the network, but it takes no action
to bring it back up again (that's probably the reason for 1. and 2.
but it is irritating)

 4. vmare-config-tools.pl modifies modprobe.conf (some versions do it
wrongly) and if you make changes to your modprobe.conf and then run
vmware-config-tools.pl it will restore an old version, so you loose
any changes you have made

 5. There is no easy way to download the latest VMwareTools (with eg.
updated kernel modules) from the VMware website

 6. You have to extract VMwareTools from an ISO on an ESX (or from an RPM
containing an ISO containing a tarball with the RPM iirc) because you
cannot simply download it.

 7. Different versions are not quite compatible, so you have to be careful
running the correct VMwareTools version for the correct ESX server you
are running. And VMwareTools does not check or escalate when your
setup is wrong or unsupported

 8. If you have netdump running, then running vmware-config-tools.pl
forces you to unload netconsole.ko on the console, which is rather a
RHEL bug, but it could at least work around it.

 9. On all our systems we have been forced to pre-compile the modules
because VMwareTools is lacking support for our kernels and we do not
want to have a compiler and development packages on our servers.

If you have anything else, please add to this list :-)

The solution to some of the above could be to provide a kmod packages that 
includes the correct kernel modules for RHEL4 and RHEL5. But for a lot of 
problems above a rewrite of VMwareTools is needed.


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Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

[Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux]

Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:

Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl
(localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!)
And you will have to answer a few questions and the Display features
will also be prompted to you allowing to change the resolution...

Voilà, Mr Génie Informatique ;-)

> Hello,
>
> I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE
> i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it 
> installs successfully.
> but after this installation i still can not change my displaay 
> résolution.. (the max is 800 * 600)
> any help?
>
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> ENIM 2009 - Génie Informatique
> 
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Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

[Jeff]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE
> i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs
> successfully.
> but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution..
> (the max is 800 * 600)
> any help?
>

You must run /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl to complete the installation.

Jeff
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[CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

[Samir RHAOUSSI]

Hello,

I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE
i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs
successfully.
but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution..
(the max is 800 * 600)
any help?

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