{"id":96,"date":"2010-06-04T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T22:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2010-08-15T15:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T19:52:48","slug":"vcenter-mobile-access-vcma-tools-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/vcenter-mobile-access-vcma-tools-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) tools upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently went through and upgraded the VMware Tools on all of my virtual machines. \u00a0The only one I couldn’t get to work was my vCenter Mobile Access machine. \u00a0After some searching, I finally found this article on the VMware Communities site. \u00a0It took awhile to find, so I wanted to post the details here (so at least I can find them in the future). \u00a0Here is the source article with two takes on how to complete this task:\u00a0http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/216029?tstart=15<\/a><\/p>\n

And here is a copy of the instructions for future reference:<\/p>\n

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  1. Shutdown the VCMA guest and add a “client” CD ROM to the VCMA appliance and power-on<\/li>\n
  2. Snapshot the vCMA machine so you can undo if there are any problems!<\/li>\n
  3. Create a directory for mount point<\/li>\n
    mkdir \/mnt\/cdrom<\/pre>\n
  4. Select “VM->Guest->Install\/Upgrade VMware Tools” from the console menu<\/li>\n
  5. Copy the VMwareTools to the \/tmp directory<\/li>\n
    cp \/mnt\/cdrom\/VMwareTools-4*.gz \/tmp<\/pre>\n
  6. On the vCMA server console install the The World-Wide Web library for Perl.<\/li>\n
    yum install perl-libwww-perl<\/pre>\n
  7. Extract the contents of the VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz file in the \/tmp directory.<\/li>\n
    tar zxf \/tmp\/VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz<\/pre>\n
  8. Uninstall the previous version of VMware Tools using the uninstaller from the latest version. The uninstall script wasn’t left from the initial install.<\/li>\n
    \/tmp\/vmware-tools-distrib\/bin\/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl<\/pre>\n
  9. Install the latest version accepting the defaults.<\/li>\n
    \/tmp\/vmware-tools-distrib\/vmware-install.pl<\/pre>\n
  10. Reboot the vCMA server.<\/li>\n
    shutdown -r now<\/pre>\n
  11. If everything works correctly remove the snapshot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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