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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). Remove old Vmware tools for Operation System Specific Packages (OSP version).
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