Puppet VMware Tools OSP Module

Introduction

This module manages the installation of the VMware Operating System Specific Packages for VMware tools.

Actions:

• Removes old VMwareTools package or runs vmware-uninstall-tools.pl if found.
• Installs a vmware YUM repository, if needed.
• Installs the OSP or open vmware tools.
• Starts the vmware-tools service.

Class documentation is available via puppetdoc.

Examples

$vmwaretools_esx_version = '4.1latest'
include vmware-tools

Notes

• Only tested on CentOS 5.5 and CentOS 6.2.

Issues

• Does not yet work with version 5.0 OSP tools.
• Does not install Desktop (X Window) components.

TODO

• Support installation of Desktop packages.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2011 Mike Arnold mike@razorsedge.org