A saltstack formula that can be used to setup vmware-tools or open-vm-tools on RHEL and Debian based systems.
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See the full Salt Formulas installation and usage instructions.
Installs the vmware-tools or open-vm-tools package based on OS version and then starts the associated service. If running on RHEL/CentOS 6, Debian <9 or Ubuntu <16 the latest vmware-tools tar.gz will be pulled in from a local webserver. The tarball will be extracted and the install started.