I think vmware tools RPMs are categarized by ESX version, am I wrong?
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Christian McHugh <christian.mch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> 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> wrote: >>> >>> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Jakov Sosic <jso...@srce.hr> 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. >>> >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> >> puppet-users...@googlegroups.com. >>> >>> >> 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. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> > puppet-users...@googlegroups.com. >>> >>> > 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. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> puppet-users...@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 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. -- 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-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.
