CentOS - Sep 2011 - VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

I have an instance of VMware server 1.0.10 hosted on CentOS 5, and it
runs fine, with guests of CentOS 4, CentOS5 or Win2000.

I have just created a new VM and installed CentOS6 on it, which also runs
fine, except that I can't build the VMware tools on it. I get compilation
errors when compiling the kernel modules, due to changes in the definition
of struct net_device among other things.

I saw a suggestion to use open-vm-tools, but looking at the RPMs on the
Lucid site, it only talks about versions for ESX.

I could try compiling from source, but I wanted to check first whether
anyone here has succeeded in installing VMware tools on CentOS 6 for
VMware Server.

Cheers
Tony
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On 09/02/2011 07:12 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> I have an instance of VMware server 1.0.10 hosted on CentOS 5, and it
> runs fine, with guests of CentOS 4, CentOS5 or Win2000.
>
> I have just created a new VM and installed CentOS6 on it, which also runs
> fine, except that I can't build the VMware tools on it. I get
compilation
> errors when compiling the kernel modules, due to changes in the definition
> of struct net_device among other things.
>
> I saw a suggestion to use open-vm-tools, but looking at the RPMs on the
> Lucid site, it only talks about versions for ESX.
>
> I could try compiling from source, but I wanted to check first whether
> anyone here has succeeded in installing VMware tools on CentOS 6 for
> VMware Server.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
Short response: no. You can't install vmware tools from vmware server. 
Only vmware tools from ESXi 5 works for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6.x ...

And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not 
supported for vmware anymore.

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