Comments on: Automating VMware Tools Installs and Upgrades in Linux Guests

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:40:00 +0000

Phiney,

Thanks for your adding your experience upgrading the Tools in Linux VMs!

By: phiney

phiney — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:48:25 +0000

I use the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/.vmware_installed flag method in a init.d script that i call check_vmware_tools. it works really quite well. for best results, make sure parallel boot processing is OFF. This allows the for vmware-config-tools.pl to finish and the check_vmware_tools script to restart your network before your vital services start (eg apache, dns, oracle, etc). If you can't do this, then have the check_vmware_tools script reboot after the vmware-config-tools.pl.

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By: Malaysia VMware

Malaysia VMware — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:14:21 +0000

I had the same issue.
http://malaysiavm.com/blog/monitoring-features-from-esx-35-update-2/