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puppet-vmwaretools

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Introduction

This module manages the installation of VMware Tools via the source code tarballs distributed with vSphere.

Actions:

  • Transfer the VMware Tools tarball to the target agent
  • Untar the archive and run vmware-install-tools.pl

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (tested)
  • CentOS 6.4 x86_64 (written but untested)
  • Debian family (written but untested - reports appreciated)
  • RedHat family (written but untested - reports appreciated)

Examples

class { 'vmwaretools':
  version     = '8.6.5-621624',
  working_dir = '/opt/vmware'
}

To use the module, place your VMware Tools .tar.gz file within the module's files directory and either declare the class as above or:

include vmwaretools

Notes

  • This module is designed to replace both the OSP packages provided by VMware's repositories and also the open-vm-tools package.
  • Installer accepts all defaults.

Copyright and License

  • Copyright (C) 2012 Craig Watson - [email protected]
  • Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 - see LICENSE.md for details.