SME Server 8.0 Guest on ESXi 5.0

Graham

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SME Server 8.0 Guest on ESXi 5.0

« on: February 05, 2012, 05:35:11 PM »

Trying to workout how to install VMWARE Tools on SME Server 8 running on ESXi 5.0.

Information on the wiki only seems to be for ESXi 4 Update 1 http://wiki.contribs.org/VMware_Tools#SME_Server_8.0_Guest_on_ESXi_4.0_Update_1

Any ideas how to do it for ESXi 5?

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eastend99

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Re: SME Server 8.0 Guest on ESXi 5.0

« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 02:50:12 PM »

Just follow the VMWare howto for linux installs with rpm: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1018392

for step 6 use

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yum localinstall /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-<version>.rpm

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cactus

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Re: SME Server 8.0 Guest on ESXi 5.0

« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2012, 05:49:40 PM »

Do you really need VMWare tools? The draw back off them is that you need to recompile them after any kernel upgrade, otherwise your server will have no NICs for instance.

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Stefano

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Re: SME Server 8.0 Guest on ESXi 5.0

« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2012, 01:11:33 AM »

AFAIK, since esx3.5 there's no need to compile them.. but you have to run vmware-config-tool.pl script every time you upgrade your kernel, and you can't do it from a remote console as you can loose your connection..

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