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Installare vmware tools su Centos 5

Luca Dell'Oca, September 10, 2010December 4, 2016

Anche se CentOS risulta tra i sistemi operativi supportati da ESXi 4.1 e nonostante sia una derivata RedHat, per questo sistema vmware non mette a disposizione il pacchetto rpm ma il tar.gz. Vediamo quindi brevemente come installarlo:

  1. abbiamo bisogno innanzitutto del kernel-devel per compilare i nuovi moduli kernel. Verifichiamo quindi la presenza e la versione del kernel e dei sorgenti:
    uname -r             # running kernel
    rpm -q kernel-devel  # installed kernel headers
  2. Se le due versioni non corrispondono (magari in passato abbiamo aggiornato solo il kernel) eseguiamo in sequenza:
    yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel
    reboot
  3. Eseguiamo il mount del cd-rom virtuale che ESX ci avrà connesso chiedendo di installare i vmware tools e portiamoci nella directory appropriata
  4. installiamo i tools:
    tar -C /tmp -zxvf VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz
    cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
    ./vmware-install.pl

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