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 (defaults to the 'latest' package repository which is presently 5.0).
• Installs the OSP vmware tools.
• Starts the vmware-tools service.

OS Support:

• RedHat family - tested on CentOS 5.5+ and CentOS 6.2+
• Fedora - not supported
• SuSE family - untested (initial support for yumrepo) (patches welcome)
• Ubuntu - tested on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Debian - presently unsupported (patches welcome)

Class documentation is available via puppetdoc.

Examples

# Top Scope variable (i.e. via Dashboard):
$vmwaretools_tools_version = '4.1'
$vmwaretools_autoupgrade = true
include 'vmwaretools'

# Parameterized Class:
class { 'vmwaretools':
  tools_version => '4.0u3',
  autoupgrade   => true,
}

Notes

• Only tested on CentOS 5.5+ and CentOS 6.2+ x86_64 with 4.0latest.
• Not supported on Fedora. Attempts to work with open-vm-tools from the Fedora repository were met with difficulty as the packages do not exist in newer Fedora versions.

Issues

• Does not install Desktop (X Window) components.

TODO

• Support installation of Desktop (X Window) packages.
• Add logic to handle RHEL5 i386 PAE kernel on OSP 5.0+.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2012 Mike Arnold [email protected]