Handle CentOS / RHEL 7 gracefully about puppet-vmwaretools

[djjudas21]

Any movement on this one? VMware still haven't released their RHEL7 repo. Thanks :)

[razorsedge]

It looks like VMware has updated it's documentation:

OSPs are provided for certain popular operating systems. If the operating system vendor/community provides open-vm-tools, then it is recommended to use open-vm-tools that are provided by vendor/community. VMware will not provide OSPs for operating system where open-vm-tools are available. To learn more about open-vm-tools, see following: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.

I will be adding a restriction to this module to not install on EL7. I hope to find the time this week to do so.

[djjudas21]

Ah OK, I hadn't realised that EL7 natively provided open-vm-tools. Will your module install this? I'm keen on a module that I can include across my estate of VMs that will magically install VMware tools. I don't particularly care whether it gets it from VMware's repo or CentOS base.

[razorsedge]

This module will not, but I am now considering building another module that will deal with open-vm-tools on platforms that ship it.

[djjudas21]

But will that mean that I have to decide which module I want to install, e.g. using a selector to choose based on OS?

[razorsedge]

No, it will do-the-right-thing(TM). :-)

[razorsedge]

Commit 7c58db8 in branch feature/el7 should do what we need.

[razorsedge]

This should be fixed in razorsedge/vmwaretools version 4.8.0.