{"id":133,"date":"2010-08-08T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T00:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-08-08T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T00:12:05","slug":"install-vmware-tools-in-openfiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/install-vmware-tools-in-openfiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Install VMware Tools in openfiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a couple of lab type vSphere setups that use Openfiler virtual machines for shared storage.  For several months these have been running with out of date VMware tools.  Several weeks ago I was able to upgrade these tools and wanted to share the required steps.<\/p>\n<p>The first required task was to install a C Compiler &#8212; specifically gcc.  While at it I updated all other components and shutdown the virtual machine:<\/p>\n<pre>conary updateall\r\nconary update gcc\r\nshutdown -h now<\/pre>\n<p>After the machine was powered down I added a virtual CD-ROM drive.  This drive will be used to mount the VM tools ISO.  After adding a CD-ROM drive the virtual machine can be powered back on.  Select install\/upgrade tools from the menu.<\/p>\n<pre>mkdir \/mnt\/cdrom\r\nmount \/dev\/cdrom \/mnt\/cdrom\r\ncp VMwareTools* \/mnt\r\ntar zxvf \/tmp\/VMwareTools*\r\ncd vmware-tools-distrib\r\n.\/vmware-install.pl<\/pre>\n<p>I accepted the defaults on the vmware-install.pl configuration script.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to this communities article for a head start: <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/docs\/DOC-9332;jsessionid=A7F5565895191AE1D161E4749AF86B12\">http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/docs\/DOC-9332;jsessionid=A7F5565895191AE1D161E4749AF86B12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a couple of lab type vSphere setups that use Openfiler virtual machines for shared storage. For several months these have been running with out of date VMware tools. Several weeks ago I was able to upgrade these tools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/install-vmware-tools-in-openfiler\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}