If you are installing the open source implementation of VMware Tools ‘open-vm-tools’ into your guest operating system and require to use the virtual machine as a template or leverage Site Recovery Manager to customize virtual machines after failover, then there is a requirement to install the ‘deployPkg Tools’ plug-in.
The below details installing the plug-in on an Ubuntu operating system, however steps for other operating systems can be found here.
Firstly, we will need to obtain and import the VMware Packaging Public keys which can be downloaded from here and the files are required to be saved into a directory on the guest operating system. For each key downloaded, we will import the key on successful completion you should receive the below notification:
sudo apt-key add /tmp/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub OK sudo apt-key add /tmp/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub OK
We will now create the file ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vmware-tools.list’ to add the below package repository and update the package index.
deb http://packages.vmware.com/packages/ubuntu precise main sudo apt-get update
Once the package index has been updated we can invoke the following to install the ‘deployPKG’ plug-in. Once installed you should be able to customize your template or virtual machine for failover using Site Recovery Manager.
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-deploypkg
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