vmware-tools

rs232 · 24. Dezember 2012

Is there any good tutorial on how to install vmware-tools on openmediavault?

In any case (following what freenas and nas4free did) I really think it would be a great idea to include these by default in the next built.

Appreciated!
rs232

ryecoaaron · 24. Dezember 2012

VMware has a pretty good tutorial for installing the tools here. Basically, download the file, untar it, and run the install script.

It would be tough to include it because I think you need the build-essentials package for gcc and make which would make the image much bigger.

SerErris · 27. Dezember 2012

The typical usecase is to run this on a physical box. It does not prevent you from running it inside of a vm, but you simply have to make the nessesary steps on your own. Applying VMware tools as a default simply would grow it in size and make it more complex for the other users with normal physical boxes.

For test purposes you can also leave the tools out if you like.

rs232 · 28. Dezember 2012

Thanks for that. In my understanding there are plenty of virtualised NASes out there, non than less nas4free and freenas have vmwaretools installed by default.
I'm not suggesting OMW should do exactly what they do but being those older projects they are indeed better established and have gone through these discussions already.

I still think it's a good idea, what the problem in having a larger installation?

Alternatively... since OMV has a plugin funtionality how about develop a plugin for that?

lstraath · 5. Mai 2014

I know this is a bit late but still valid to answer. OpenMediaVault is Debian.

Put VMware Tools
If you use VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) go to VM > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools

We must log in with root user. It is better if we start with update all the software in system first then reboot one time.

Code

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
shutdown -r now

Install compiler and Linux Header with command

Code

apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) libglib2.0-0

Mount VMware Tools disc and extract file

Code

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
tar xvfz /mnt/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz -C /tmp/

Start installing VMware Tools with command

Code

perl /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl

Then press Enter to all the questions to use all default answer. Then reboot again and it will be done.

Code

shutdown -r now

davidh2k · 6. Mai 2014

Please substitute 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' with 'omv-update'. (At least for the newest versions)

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