On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Fletch Bowling <fletchb at gmail.com>
wrote:> Hello,
> Newbie to CentOS and attempting to run it under a windows xp host.
> I see there is a open version of vmware tools available but getting
> various dependency errors when attempting to install. the rpms.
>
> Will these tools install for ver CentOS 5 or are they for an earlier
> version?
>
> P.S. How closely does CentOS match Redhat binaries? VMware tools (from
> workstation 6) install just fine but could not be configured due to
> various errors.
>
> Thanks,
> Fletch
Have you tried open-vm-tools from here?
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2007-December/000158.html
Akemi