vmware-tools Cookbook

Scope

Chef cookbook for installing VMware tools.

Attributes

• default['vmware-tools']['update'] - default set to true, you know you want the newest always.
• default['vmware-tools']['windows_reboot'] - default set to true, and if put at the first cookbook you'll reboot then run the rest of the run_list.
• default['vmware-tools']['url'] - The location to get the Windows VMware-Tools executable from.
• default['vmware-tools']['version'] - The version of the Windows VMware-Tools.

Usage

vmware-tools::default

The default recipe will install open-vm-tools
of on a CentOS/Debian based machine. If you run this on Windows it installs the
public VMware Tools executable from packages.vmware.com.

If you have a specific place you want to install your Windows based VMware Tools
from, override the default['vmware-tools']['url']
and default['vware-tools']['version'] in the default attributes.

Testing

For more details look at the [TESTING.md](./TESTING.md).

License & Authors

Author: tecRacer Opensource Team (opensource@tecracer.de)
Original Author: JJ Asghar GitHub
Original Author: Andrew Fraley GitHub

Copyright: 2020, tecRacer Group

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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