Now you’ll need to edit the original yum repo file created for the VMware tools repository:
Remove any additional VMware packages if necessary. Verify all VMware tools packages are removed, RPM should return no results. The other VMware tools packages should be automatically removed since they depend on this kernel module. First you will want to remove the old version distributed from the package repository if you followed a procedure similar to my original post. Now it is time to get the VMware tools updated. Be careful to test your software installed because doing the following procedure will result in a minor version upgrade (6.1 at the time of this writing): I am using Scientific Linux 6, for Red Hat and CentOS the upgrade process should be similar but most likely will have a few differences.
#Vmware esxi 5 rhel update#
VMware has disabled the automatic update due to this issue: With the upgrade to ESXi 5 the update process for the tools installed from the repository is not very seamless because of some update issues in addition to package changes.įirst off, to get the VMware tools packages updated it is important to upgrade to the latest version of Red Hat/Scientific/CentOS Linux 6 due to some issues with the yum version distributed originally with 6.0. This is in contrast to using the version distributed directly with VMware ESX/ESXi, which with the Linux platform was not provided in an RPM package format. In a previous post I discussed installing the open source VMware tools for Red Hat Enterprise/Scientific/CentOS Linux 6 from a yum package repository provided by VMware.