puppet-vmwaretools

Introduction

This module manages the installation of VMware Tools via the source code tarballs distributed with vSphere.

Actions:

• Transfer the VMware Tools tarball to the target agent
• Untar the archive and run vmware-install-tools.pl

Supported Operating Systems:

• Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (tested)
• CentOS 6.4 x86_64 (written but untested)
• Debian family (written but untested - reports appreciated)
• RedHat family (written but untested - reports appreciated)

Examples

class { 'vmwaretools':
  version     = '8.6.5-621624',
  working_dir = '/opt/vmware'
}

To use the module, place your VMware Tools .tar.gz file within the module's files directory and either declare the class as above or:

include vmwaretools

Notes

• This module is designed to replace both the OSP packages provided by VMware's repositories and also the open-vm-tools package.
• Installer accepts all defaults.

Copyright and License

• Copyright (C) 2012 Craig Watson - craig@cwatson.org
• Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 - see LICENSE.md for details.