{"id":1118,"date":"2012-12-26T10:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2012-12-26T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:55:13","slug":"vmware-tools-and-vsphere-management-assistant-vma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/vmware-tools-and-vsphere-management-assistant-vma\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Tools and vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently deployed the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual appliance to an ESXi 5.1 host. While it worked fine, the VMware Tools Version Status displayed ‘3rd-party\/independent’ instead of Current. While this is normal, I was on a kick to get all my VMware Tools Current. If you share the same obsessive compulsive traits, here are some instructions for you:<\/p>\n

Start by removing the existing Open VMware Tools: <\/p>\n

rpm -e vmware-open-vm-tools-common vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod<\/pre>\n
We also need to install the C Compiler before we can install the standard VMware Tools.  We can do that with zypper in SUSE Linux. <\/p>\n
zypper in gcc<\/pre>\n
If you haven’t used zypper already, you may need to select ‘t’<\/strong> to temporarily trust the distribution key.  You’ll then want to select Option 1<\/strong> to resolve a conflict by removing the existing version of GCC and installing the new version.<\/p>\n
From this point, we can install VMware Tools in normal Linux fashion.  Select Guest > Install VMware Tools and then follow these steps:<\/p>\n
\r\nmkdir \/tmp\/cdrom\r\nmount \/dev\/cdrom \/tmp\/cdrom\r\ncp \/tmp\/cdrom\/VMwareTools-9.0.1-913578.tar.gz \/tmp\r\ncd \/tmp\r\ntar zxvf VMwareTools-9.0.1-913578.tar.gz\r\n.\/vmware-install.pl\r\n<\/pre>\n
The installer is going to ask a bunch of questions — selecting the defaults should work just fine.  We are now running the current version of VMware Tools for this host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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