arnegroskurth/open-vm-tools

open-vm-tools for Fedora CoreOS. See: coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker#70

The container comes with the user cloud-agent that can be used to authenticate with the cloud agent when using guest RPC (has to set password via CLOUD_AGENT_PASSWORD).

Running the container

$ docker run --privileged --pid=host --net=host --ipc=host --uts=host --restart always --name open-vm-tools arnegroskurth/open-vm-tools

Note: Remember to add --env CLOUD_AGENT_PASSWORD=foobar for the guest RPC functionality to be available.

Running as SystemD service

Can be used to run this image in a SystemD-environment like Fedora CoreOS.

[Unit]
Description=Open VM Tools
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
ConditionVirtualization=vmware

[Service]
ExecStartPre=-docker rm -fv open-vm-tools
ExecStart=docker run --privileged --pid=host --net=host --ipc=host --uts=host --restart always --name open-vm-tools arnegroskurth/open-vm-tools

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target