Vmware tools install, but no green tick

[netson]

Hey, first of all thanks for writing this module! I too am trying to satisfy my green tick syndrome! :+1:

However, no luck so far. Here's what I did:

• I know Ubuntu 14.04 is not marked as supported (yet), but this is the version I am currently using and trying to get to work
• Mounted the Vmware tools using the vSphere Client on a Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS machine
• Copied the VMwareTools-9.4.5-1598834.tar.gz file to my local machine
• On my ENC (Foreman 1.5.1) created a folder 'files' under the modules/vmwaretools folder and placed the VMwareTools-9.4.5-1598834.tar.gz file inside
• In my ENC I changed the default version number to 9.4.5-1598834
• Unmounted the Vmware tools using the vSphere client
• Ran the puppet agent on the same Ubuntu test machine

Below is the output of my puppet run; all seems well right? That's what I thought, but when I take a look at my vSphere client for this machine (summary tab), it tells me:

VMware Tools: Running (3rd-party/Independent)

Is this due to the fact that Ubuntu 14.04 is officially not supported yet? This seems unlinkely, because when I manually install the exact same tools (using these instructions: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022525) I get the desired green tick.

Am I doing something wrong? Hope you can help!

Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Config/File[/tmp/vmwaretools]/ensure: created
Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Archive/File[/tmp/vmwaretools/VMwareTools-9.4.5-1598834.tar.gz]/ensure: defined content as '{md5}00c8c966d6e62c8d33fb05f503ba0786'
Info: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Archive/File[/tmp/vmwaretools/VMwareTools-9.4.5-1598834.tar.gz]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[uncompress_vmwaretools]
Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[uncompress_vmwaretools]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events
Info: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[uncompress_vmwaretools]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[install_vmwaretools]
Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[install_vmwaretools]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events
Info: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[install_vmwaretools]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[clean_vmwaretools]
Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[clean_vmwaretools]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events
Info: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[clean_vmwaretools]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[remove_vmwaretools_working_dir]
Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[remove_vmwaretools_working_dir]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events
Notice: Finished catalog run in 28.55 seconds

System info:

vSphere Client: Version 5.5.0, build 1618071
VMware ESXi: Version 5.5.0, build 1623387
VMware Tools: Version 9.4.5-1598834 (copied from my ESX)
VMwaretools Puppet Class: Version 0.4.1
Ubuntu Server: Version 14.04 LTS

[netson]

Hmm, strange; I just tried it again from scratch with a new VM (all the same versions) and it worked without a hitch. I'll close the issue for now and come back to it if I run into this issue again.

The upside is: it does seem to work out of the box with Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, so I guess you can consider adding that to the supported OS's list! :)