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VMWareTools for MailCleaner
Julien Groselle
Added almost 10 years ago
Information¶
Enable VMWareTools for MailCleaner server with open-vmware-tools and open-vmware-tools-desktop
Description¶
If you plan to install MailCleaner virtual appliance on your VMWare infrastructure you will need to install VMWare Tools.
# Connect your MailCleaner trought SSH as root apt-get update apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop
Then:
reboot
VMWare compatibility¶
Currently there are no restrictions regarding support from VMware. VMware recommends using open-vm-tools instead of VMware tools as outlined in this article: (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2073803)
Eliminates the need to separately install VMware Tools when open-vm-tools is bundled with the operating system because open-vm-tools is a fully-supported open source implementation of VMware Tools.
Remove old MailCleaner VMWare tools¶
If you already installed our old package mc-vmwaretools
, you have to remove it and purge the package before installing open-vm-tools
and open-vm-tools-desktop
:
apt-get remove mc-vmwaretools
apt-get purge mc-vmwaretools