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-====== Update VMware tools ======
+====== Update VMware tools to version 5.1 ======
+===== Uninstall old vmware tools =====
+  #  locate vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
+  # ./<path and filename from above>
+  Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.
+  Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
+   Guest operating system daemon:                          [  OK  ]
+   Unmounting HGFS shares:                                 [  OK  ]
+   Guest filesystem driver:                                [  OK  ]
+   Guest memory manager:                                   [  OK  ]
+  File /etc/X11/xorg.conf is backed up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old.1.
+  File /etc/updatedb.conf is backed up to /etc/updatedb.conf.old.1.
+  File /etc/modprobe.conf is backed up to /etc/modprobe.conf.old.1.
+  The removal of VMware Tools 3.5.0 build-158874 for Linux completed
+  successfully. Thank you for having tried this software.
+===== Import Vmware GPG keys =====
+  # rpm --import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub
+  # rpm --import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
+===== Create vmware repo (Applies for ESX 5.1 and RHEL5) =====
+  /etc/yum.repos.d/vmware-tools.repo:
+  [vmware-tools]
+  name=VMware Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch
+  baseurl=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.1/rhel5/$basearch
+  enabled=1
+  gpgcheck=1
+===== Install vmware tools: =====
+  # yum install vmware-tools-esx-kmods vmware-tools-esx
+Reboot
+====== Update VMware tools from ESX4.0 to ESX 4.1 ======
 Remove old Vmware tools for Operation System Specific Packages (OSP version).

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