Installazione Vmware tools su SLES 11 SP1

Creare una cartella:

mkdir /root/gpgkey

Con firefox andar all’indirizzo: http://packages.vmware.com/tools/

Salvare il file  VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-KEY.PUB dentro /root/gpgkey

Eseguire:    

rpm –import /root/gpgkey/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-KEY.PUB

a questo punto aggiungere a zypper il repository (sorgente di software)

zypper addservice –type=YUM http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/ "versione vmware"/"versione SLES"/"tipo SLES  vmware-tools-collection

Verificare l'aggiunta del repository:  

zypper packages vmware-tools-collection

Procedere con l'installazione: 

zypper install –c vmware-tools-collection vmware-tools

controllare su VC o ESX nel summary del guest se viene riportata la scritta  "unmanaged"

NOTE:

"Unmanaged" is a valid state for VMware Tools, and indicates that some mechanism other than the classic VMware Tools "interactive/scriptable" installer engine is responsible for keeping the tools components "up to date".

This is what I would expect to see for the majority of newer virtual appliances being submitted for evaluation/validation through the VMware Ready Virtual Appliances Program.

Typically the "unmanaged" state is triggered by one of three cases:

VMware Operating-System Specific Packages (OSPs) served fromhttp://packages.vmware.com (nostro caso)

Open VM Tools

VMware Studio 2 supplied OSPs