Re: So - has anyone gotten any version of open-vm-tools to build on RHEL5/CentOS5?

[Reindl H. <h.r...@th...>]

Am 07.03.2013 21:07, schrieb Brian Reichert:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:54:04PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> for RHEL you find binary RPMS and even yum-repos fro the VMware-Tools
>>
>> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html
>> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.0u2/rhel6/x86_64/index.html
>> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.0u2/rhel5/x86_64/index.html
> 
> These are not open source, and there is no corresponding source
> code available for them

so what - your host-OS is also not opensource

if you are riding on the "all has to be open source" you must
use KVM or such solutions at all - the open-vm tools are mostly
for guest systems which are providing recent kernels which does
not need most of the kernel-modules and in a short also have
vmci/vsock in the upstream kernel

saying that: look in the changelog, in a short you can expect
that there is no way to install open-vm-tools on kernels
of LTS guest systems becuse you will lack many things which
are never in RHEL5/6