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This page is about to install ESXi on bare metal and later install SME9.1 as one vm.
 
This page is about to install ESXi on bare metal and later install SME9.1 as one vm.
  

Revision as of 02:42, 19 August 2016

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This page is about to install ESXi on bare metal and later install SME9.1 as one vm.

Install SME9.1 as a Centos6. Later you must install vmware-tools following this:

 rpm --import https://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
 db yum_repositories set vmware-tools repository \
 Name 'VMWare Tools' \
 BaseURL 'https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/6.0u2/rhel6/$basearch' \
 EnableGroups no \
 GPGCheck yes \
 GPGKey https://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub \
 Visible no \
 status disabled


At this point signal-event yum-update dont work, think signal-event yum-modify can be more good but I do signal-event post-upgrade & reboot. So

 signal-event post-upgrade ;  signal-event reboot
 yum --enablerepo=vmware-tools install vmware-tools-esx-kmods vmware-tools-esx-nox

At this point, vmware-tools will autostart

Verify the service is online after the reboot:

  /etc/vmware-tools/init/vmware-tools-services status

Should show something like

 #vmtoolsd is running