I've done something similar using the open-vm package on debian hosts.
On Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:06:10 PM UTC-5, Alan Evans wrote: > > I believe the open-vm-tools at http://packages.vmware.com/tools are ESX > host version agnostic. > > We pull the rhel 4-6 repos into RHN satellite and just use puppet ensure > the latest is installed. > > If you do t use satellite you could just clone the repo and configure yum > on the clients. > > Packages are available for RHEL, SuSE and deb at least. > > -Alan > On Sep 22, 2012 3:25 PM, "Hai Tao" <eha...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> It is a useful tool. However, the difficulty is that our ENV has >> multiple versions of ESX hosts, 3.5, 4.1 and 5.0. The guest OS has no >> clue what version of ESX it is running on, so how can puppet server >> push a correct version of vmware tools to a client? >> >> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Michael Stahnke >> <sta...@puppetlabs.com <javascript:>> wrote: >> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Jakov Sosic <jso...@srce.hr<javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> On 09/19/2012 11:55 PM, Hai Tao wrote: >> >>> >> >>> There seems to be a few vmware tools installation modules. Has someone >> >>> used these modules to install VMware tools? >> >>> >> >>> Searching http://forge.puppetlabs.com ... >> >>> NAME DESCRIPTION >> >>> >> >>> AUTHOR KEYWORDS >> >>> vchoi-vmware Puppet module to handle installation, upgrade >> >>> and reconfiguration of vmware tools on vmware virtual nodes. >> >>> @vchoi virtualization vmware vmware-tools >> >>> vmware_tools vmtools >> >>> razorsedge-vmwaretools Puppet VMware Tools OSP Module >> >>> >> >>> @razorsedge vmware vmware-tools vmware_tools >> vmtools >> >>> rhel CentOS SuSE OEL >> >>> puppetlabs-vcenter VMware vCenter installation and management >> >>> >> >>> @puppetlabs windows vmware vcenter vsphere >> >>> 5UbZ3r0-vmwaretools This module handles the installation the >> >>> VMware Tools Operating System Specific >> >>> @5UbZ3r0 debian virtualization rhel CentOS >> >>> vmware vmware-tools vmwaretools >> >>> puppetlabs-appdirector # VMware vFabric Application Directorâ >> >>> ¢ >> Puppet >> >>> Service >> >>> @puppetlabs vmware >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> How well does it work? >> >> >> >> >> >> It seems that nobody tried this already. I'm interested too... >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Jakov Sosic >> >> www.srce.unizg.hr >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >> "Puppet Users" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to >> >> puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> >> >> > >> > I don't know that I would endorse one over another, but Puppet Labs >> > did a module of the week post about one of them. >> > >> > http://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-razorsedge-vmwaretools/ >> > >> > That might be a good starting point. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Puppet Users" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to >> > puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Hai Tao >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/FTYloCumctkJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
