Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-25 Thread Hai Tao
Wolf, that is wonderful fact, and we can deploy vmtools based on its underneath ESX version now! however, Address 0xEA550 seems to be ESX4.1U1, but ESX4U1. Can you verify? On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Wolf Noble wno...@datapipe.com wrote: I've just added a fact to github which on vmware

Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-24 Thread Elias Abacioglu
I think that you can specify vmware version with a variable or something for the razors edge module.. Otherwise I can soon try to publish my vmware tools module.. Though it's not written as nice as razorsedge -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-24 Thread Wolf Noble
I've just added a fact to github which on vmware hosts running linux runs dmidecode and matches known bios address/ esx version to realize an ESX version fact. this information generated from http://virtwo.blogspot.com/2010/10/which-esx-version-am-i-running-on.html in limited testing on an

Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-22 Thread Michael Stahnke
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

Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-22 Thread Hai Tao
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

Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-22 Thread Alan Evans
I believe the open-vm-tools at http://packages.vmware.com/tools are ESX host version agnostic. We pull the rhel 4-6 repos into RHN satellite and just use puppet ensure the latest is installed. If you do t use satellite you could just clone the repo and configure yum on the clients. Packages are

Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-22 Thread Christian McHugh
I've done something similar using the open-vm package on debian hosts. On Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:06:10 PM UTC-5, Alan Evans wrote: I believe the open-vm-tools at http://packages.vmware.com/tools are ESX host version agnostic. We pull the rhel 4-6 repos into RHN satellite and just

Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-22 Thread Hai Tao
I think vmware tools RPMs are categarized by ESX version, am I wrong? On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Christian McHugh christian.mch...@gmail.com wrote: I've done something similar using the open-vm package on debian hosts. On Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:06:10 PM UTC-5, Alan Evans

Re: [Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-21 Thread Jakov Sosic
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 ... NAMEDESCRIPTION AUTHORKEYWORDS vchoi-vmware

[Puppet Users] install vmware tools through puppet

2012-09-19 Thread Hai Tao
There seems to be a few vmware tools installation modules. Has someone used these modules to install VMware tools? Searching http://forge.puppetlabs.com ... NAMEDESCRIPTION AUTHORKEYWORDS vchoi-vmwarePuppet module to handle installation,