Open-vm-tools On CentOS 6

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Hello all,

As far as which VMWare tools to use – the ones from VM Ware or the open-vm-tools available through the EPEL – is there any consensus on what is better? I know that for CentOS 7 you are told to use open-vm-tools but what is the situation with CentOS 6?

Thanks.

Boris.

7 thoughts on - Open-vm-tools On CentOS 6

  • Reindl,

    Thanks, that is good to know. However, aside from proving that there is some history to the open-vm-tools this really doesn’t reflect on the compatibility of the current version.

    Boris.

  • Why?
    VMWare’s rpm repo is well maintained until EL6.

    Am 11.11.2014 um 14:22 schrieb Nux!:

    VG Rainer

  • Why not?

    I already have EPEL on 99% of my systems, don’t have to bother with Vmware’s repo.

    Open-vm-tools is good enough to be included in Base in EL7, it’s good enough for me on EL6.

    Disclaimer: I do not use VMware :)

  • I know that open-vm-tools is maintained by vmware. I meant the Vmware repo is alway matching latest vSphere release.

    But:
    – doesn’t contain newer pv drivers
    – isn’t on par with vSphere releases

    For example:
    9.4.6 Dyno Hongjun Fu
    Release matching the vSphere 5.5p02 release.
    9.4.0 Dmitry Torokhov Release matching the vSphere 5.5 release.

    There is no 9.4.6 rpm for C7 but we are running vSphere 5.5p02

    VG Rainer

    Am 11.11.2014 um 16:17 schrieb Reindl Harald: