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voxpupuli / puppet-vmwaretools

Puppet module to manage VMware Operating System Specific Packages for VMware tools installation.
http://forge.puppetlabs.com/razorsedge/vmwaretools
Apache License 2.0
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bdwyertech #8

Closed bdwyertech closed 11 years ago

bdwyertech commented 11 years ago

Not really an issue but a suggestion. I modified this to change disable-tools-version=true to false. This allows the vmware tools to report the version of the tools to vCenter.

I simply integrated this.

sed -i 's/disable-tools-version=true/disable-tools-version=false/g' /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf

luke-vidler commented 11 years ago

Nice - saves me from explaining to the systems guys the vmwaretools = 'unmanaged'

razorsedge commented 11 years ago

Is there any documentation on why VMware ships this setting as false?

bdwyertech commented 11 years ago

As far as I know, this setting is set to true when the VMware Tools are installed via any method other than installing using the VMware Tools Installer ISO (right click VM, install VMware Tools). I think it is to prevent someone from upgrading the VMware Tools manually outside of package management. However, I have not found this to be an issue; I just wouldn't enable auto-upgrade VMware Tools to keep package management in sync. When I see an out of date on vCenter, I run a yum update vmware* instead. As far as documentation goes, I am not sure! I have found documentation on the VMware Tools to be rather lacking when it comes to things like that. I think I initially found out about that setting via a blog!

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Mike Arnold notifications@github.comwrote:

Is there any documentation on why VMware ships this setting as false?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/razorsedge/puppet-vmwaretools/issues/8#issuecomment-11155037.

razorsedge commented 11 years ago

f13a05f has support for this option. I should be able to get a release out in the next week or so.

bdwyertech commented 11 years ago

Awesome! Glad you were able to incorporate that, I think many will find it useful. On Dec 13, 2012 1:33 AM, "Mike Arnold" notifications@github.com wrote:

f13a05f https://github.com/razorsedge/puppet-vmwaretools/commit/f13a05fhas support for this option. I should be able to get a release out in the next week or so.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/razorsedge/puppet-vmwaretools/issues/8#issuecomment-11324018.

razorsedge commented 11 years ago

Version 4.2.0 released with this fix.