If you are willing to walk a little on the wild side,

http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/

Is run by vmware, but it isn't their "official" release set; some things 
are missing.

Pat

On 04/29/2011 08:55 AM, Larry Linder wrote:
> Down load their evaluation set or just buy it and load it.
> Works perfectly from their web site.
> Larry Linder
>
> On Friday 29 April 2011 3:50 am, Ahmed El Zein wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 19:44 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Lukas Press<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>>> On 04/09/2011 11:34 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>>>> 2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta<[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>> I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed.
>>>>>> Can someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header
>>>>>> files, and under what path they will be installed?
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Niko
>>>> kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages, both available in sl repos.
>>>> The install script will complain that the path to the c header files
>>>> are wrong if you install the header files midway through the process,
>>>> even if you put the correct path in (/usr/include i think?).  If this
>>>> is happening cancel the install and re-run the vmware-install.pl script
>>>> after installing the correct packages; it should pick up the header
>>>> files automatically then.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Chris
>>> There's also a bit of nastiness when you update kernels: VMWare has
>>> not selected to incorporate the 'vmware-modules' init script I sent
>>> them, that re-runs the VMware configuration at boot time in case
>>> you're running a new kernel. This is particularly dangerous if you're
>>> using the vmxnet network drivers rather than e1000: the guest host
>>> will be unavailable after a kernel upgrade and reboot until the
>>> configuration tool is re-run, and if you have the wrong network setup,
>>> your hostname will be wrong and you'll have to reboot *AGAIN*. to get
>>> all your services configured correctly.
>> If you are using ESX (as I am), then you might want to look at the
>> repository at:
>> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html
>>
>> This way you get automatic updates when you upgrade the kernel.