Installing VMware Tools on Raspberry Pi OS for ESXi-Arm

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1. Aallon says

   10/16/2020 at 4:27 am

   We can run android os?

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   • William Lam says

     10/16/2020 at 5:37 am

     Try it out and let us know! I know in the past customers have ran Android OS for x86, but haven't looked into it

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2. Marco says

   11/27/2020 at 7:09 am

   Thanks, I executed the steps on Ubuntu server 20.4 arm edition VM under ESXi on a Raspberry Pi 4 and it also works for that guest system

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3. Bob says

   01/01/2021 at 2:15 pm

   This works pretty well, it now shows

   "Running, version:2147483647 (Guest Managed)"

   however I do get an error:

   "This virtual machine failed to become vSphere HA Protected and HA may not attempt to restart it after a failure."

   I'm running vCenter Server 7.0.1

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4. Travis Thorne says

   04/24/2021 at 10:11 pm

   Hi,

   Thanks heaps for this guide.

   I copied & pasted the commands you listed above into a shell script, it work great .Thanks!

   install-vmware-tools.sh :

   
#!/bin/sh

   # Change to root and pull latest updates by running the following two commands:

   sudo apt update

   # Clone Open VM Tools repo and change into the inner directory by running the following commands:

   git clone https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git
   cd open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/

   # Install the following packages which will be needed to compile VMware Tools from source:

   sudo apt install -y \
   automake libtool libmspack-dev libglib2.0-dev \
   libpam0g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev \
   libx11-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev \
   libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxtst-dev libgtk2.0-dev

   # Run the following commands to build and install VMware Tools:

   autoreconf -i
   ./configure without-x
   make
   sudo make install
   sudo ldconfig

   # We need to create a new systemd unit file so that we can
   # manage the VMware Tools service, do to so, run the following command:

   cat | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service << EOF
   [Unit]
   Description=
   Description=Open VM Tools
   After=
   After=network-online.target
   [Service]
   ExecStart=
   ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
   Restart=always
   RestartSec=1sec
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   EOF

   # Enable and start the VMware Tools service by running the following command:

   sudo systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service
sudo systemctl start vmtoolsd.service


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   • Travis Thorne says

     04/24/2021 at 10:18 pm

     oops, int the script I pasted, the line:
     ./configure without-x
     should be:
     ./configure --without-x

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