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Flag passed to VMware Tools installer may need to be dynamic #9

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geerlingguy opened this issue Oct 29, 2016 · 6 comments
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Flag passed to VMware Tools installer may need to be dynamic #9

geerlingguy opened this issue Oct 29, 2016 · 6 comments

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@geerlingguy
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The current command to install VMware Tools is:

- name: Run the VMware tools installer.
  shell: /tmp/vmfusion-archive/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl --default

But for newer versions (8+?) of VMware (and maybe only on more recent OSes), the installation may need --force-install instead. See these two commits in Bento:
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Or maybe no install at all on 16.04? Trying to suss out what actually happened in Bento upsteam...

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See also: Installing VMware tools on a virtual machine that supports open-vm-tools

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The related issue geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1404#21

@it-praktyk it-praktyk mentioned this issue May 20, 2017
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The fix is included in the #13

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Thanks!

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The issue can be closed now because is resolved by #15

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