I've recently deployed on (via puppet) the following script to deal automatically with kernel updates: ----------------------------------- #Automatically updates VMWare tools (to be called from /etc/rc.local) if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/.vmware_installed ]; then /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl --default touch /lib/modules/`uname -r`/.vmware_installed if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then exit 1 fi echo "*** Rebooting (VMWare tools update)***" reboot fi -----------------------------------
Kind of a calculated risk, but really handy when you patch lots of machines :) Cheers, Marcello > -----Original Message----- > From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet- > us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dick Davies > Sent: dinsdag 16 februari 2010 20:28 > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] vmwaretools > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Rob McBroom <mailingli...@skurfer.com> > wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Marc Fournier wrote: > > > >> [²] http://github.com/camptocamp/puppet-openvmtools > > > > Pardon my ignorance, but why run the `install-open-vm-tools.sh` or > `vmware-config-tools.pl` at all? > > > > My manifests for VMWare guests (running RHEL5) just do this: > > > > 1. set up a yumrepo for > http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.0/rhel5/$architecture/ > > 2. make sure the “vmware-tools” package is installed > > 3. make sure the "vmware-tools” service runs > > > > The only problems I’ve had are that the GPG key for that repo doesn’t > seem to work (last I checked) and it doesn’t support RHEL4. What am I > missing? > > We had issues with certain modules (vmmemctl) not loading until we'd > run vmware-config-tools.pl. Running the service might have helped, but > at the time there were some widespread performance issues on our ESX > hosts and I wanted to be as blameless as possible - so I chickened out > and went for the 'official' RPMs :) > > We install the (official) RPM with Puppet, and do the tools install on > the vmware console when we patch the kernel. I'm not adventurous > enough to have Puppet patch kernels and bounce systems (yet). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet- > users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
