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

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

On Thursday, March 14, 2013 04:25:21 PM Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:01:55PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > > The NEWS file of open-vm-tools spans back to 2007.09.04.
> > > RHEL5 was released six months prior, in 2007.3.14.
> > 
> > which is a long time ago
> > 
> > > Are you saying that in the last _five years_ no one's successfully
> > > built any version of open-vm-rools for RHEL5?
> > 
> > who knows and who cares since VMware Inc. ships binaries
> > within ESXi and in public repos?
> 
> Well, I've not heard further on this topic.
> 
> A summary, for the benefit of the email archives:
> 
> - RHEL5 was released on 2007, and the EOL according to RedHat is
>   now 2017; a proposed lifespan of ten years.
> 
> - There has been no version of open-vm-rools has even been built for
>   RHEL5, (and by extension, CentOS) and there's no interest on the
>   part of this project to do so.
> 
> - The RPM packages associated with the commercial release cannot be
>   redistributed.  (There are only two I'm interested in, but none
>   of them are available for our use.)
> 
> So, I'm SOL, it seems.

You can always build your own version of glib library and compile against it. 
This is what we do internally so that tools work with older guests.

Thanks,
Dmitry