VMware Tools

1 Purpose

This document describes the installation of the VMware Tools on a SME Server 7.4 guest running on an ESXi Server 3.5 or 4.0.

2 Installation

Download the required packages

wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.0latest/rhel4/i686/vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.0.2-208167.el4.i686.rpm
wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.0latest/rhel4/i686/vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.0.2-208167.el4.i686.rpm
wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.0latest/rhel4/i686/vmware-open-vm-tools-nox-8.0.2-208167.el4.i686.rpm

Install the packages and dependencies

/usr/bin/yum localinstall \
 vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.0.2-208167.el4.i686.rpm \
 vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.0.2-208167.el4.i686.rpm \
 vmware-open-vm-tools-nox-8.0.2-208167.el4.i686.rpm

Link the start script to run level 7

ln -fs /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-tools /etc/rc7.d/S90vmware-tools

Start the service

service vmware-tools start