Open-vm-tools: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:14, 17 September 2020

When installing Alpine Linux on an ESXi or VSphere system you definitely want to enable the hypervisor tools. The good news is that Alpine has this package ready to go! Open-VM-Tools provides the VMWare hypervisor info from Alpine and other Linux. https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

Changes

Since alpine 3.12 the open-vm-tools version 11 was split into packages:

open-vm-tools
- open-vm-tools-deploypkg
- open-vm-tools-guestinfo
- open-vm-tools-static
- open-vm-tools-vmbackup

DeployPkg provides support for Guest Customization

Installation

apk add open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-guestinfo open-vm-tools-deploypkg

Start once

rc-service open-vm-tools start

Add to boot

rc-update add open-vm-tools boot

Verify in ESXi/VSphere its working

Look for: VMware Tools (Running, version:xxxx)

Working ESXi Tools

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 When installing Alpine Linux on an ESXi or VSphere system you definitely want to enable the hypervisor tools. The good news is that Alpine has this package ready to go! Open-VM-Tools provides the VMWare hypervisor info from Alpine and other Linux.  https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
-=== Install and Run ===
+=== Changes ===
-# Install with: apk add open-vm-tools
-# Check with: rc-service open-vm-tools start
+Since alpine 3.12 the open-vm-tools version 11 was split into packages:
+* open-vm-tools
+** open-vm-tools-deploypkg
+** open-vm-tools-guestinfo
+** open-vm-tools-static
+** open-vm-tools-vmbackup
+DeployPkg provides support for Guest Customization
+=== Installation ===
+<code>apk add open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-guestinfo open-vm-tools-deploypkg</code>
+=== Start once ===
+<code>rc-service open-vm-tools start</code>
+=== Add to boot ===
+<code>rc-update add open-vm-tools boot</code>
+=== Verify in ESXi/VSphere its working ===
+Look for: VMware Tools (Running, version:xxxx)
 <gallery>
 Working Tools.png|Working ESXi Tools
 </gallery>