On 11/20/2014 08:05 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > BTW, on debian/ubuntu systems, it's sufficient to "apt-get -y install > open-vm-tools" instead of building vmware-tools the usual way. > > Last I knew, redhat systems still need to build vmware-tools the usual way, > but I haven't checked for the existence of open-vm-tools in rhel7. Maybe it > exists now. >
As an alternative to installing/building VMware Tools through the image and interface provided in ESXi and vCenter for various RHEL/CentOS, SUSE and Ubuntu versions (those without open-vm-tools, which RHEL 7 now includes and VMware supports the use of), you can look at the VMware Tools Operating System Specific Packages (OSP). https://www.vmware.com/support/packages These are provided in the OSes' respective packaging formats (e.g. RPM). We use these (sync'd into our RHN Satellite) for our RHEL environment so we can manage the Tools through Satellite like most of our other patching. (Note that the OSP Tools report in vCenter as "3rd party/unmanaged".) (One caveat on the OSPs, though. VMware has had trouble over the years with learning how to properly package and version their OSP RPMs, both within the Tools for a particular ESXi or guest OS version and across ESXi or guest OS versions, resulting in occasional conflicts between dissimilar packages with identical RPM names and versions. They're getting better, but I think I'm still seeing issues.) As far as timekeeping, we've had no trouble with running ntpd normally in our RHEL VMs lately. Some years back, we had issues (probably ESX 3.x but maybe also 4.x, and RHEL 3 or 4, and maybe early 5, but details are fuzzy now), which we worked around with tips from the (now old) VMware whitepaper on timekeeping with Linux VMs (presumably since replaced by the already-mentioned KB article). Definitely no problems with later RHEL 5 or newer on ESXi 5.0/5.5, though. =Dave -- Hello World. David Bronder - Systems Architect Segmentation Fault ITS-EI, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. [email protected] _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
