It’s been a busy weekend and with this post I’ll share the code to always download the lastest version of VMware Tools. As stated in the previous blog posts, these scripts will only be published when they’re truely evergreen, check my Github repo for more examples.
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Function Get-VMWareToolsVersion { <# .NOTES Author: Bronson Magnan Twitter: @cit_bronson #> [CmdletBinding()] [OutputType([Version])] Param() $vmwareTools = "https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/windows/x64/index.html" $pattern = "[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\-[0-9]+\-x86_64" #get the raw page content $pageContent=(wget -UseBasicParsing -Uri $vmwareTools).content #change one big string into many strings, then find only the line with the version number $interestingLine = ($pageContent.split("`n") | Select-string -Pattern $pattern).tostring().trim() #remove the whitespace and split on the assignment operator, then split on the double quote and select the correct item $filename = (($interestingLine.Replace(" ","").Split("=") | Select-string -Pattern $pattern).ToString().Trim().Split("`""))[1] #file name is in the format "VMware-tools-10.2.1-8267844-x86_64.exe" #convert to a .NET version class, that can be used to compare against other version objects $version = [version]$filename.Replace("VMware-tools-","").Replace("-x86_64.exe","").Replace("-",".") #return the version object Write-Output $version } Function Get-VMWareToolsUri { <# .NOTES Author: Bronson Magnan Twitter: @cit_bronson #> [CmdletBinding()] [OutputType([string])] Param() $vmwareTools = "https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/windows/x64/index.html" $pattern = "[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\-[0-9]+\-x86_64" #get the raw page content $pageContent=(wget -UseBasicParsing -Uri $vmwareTools).content #change one big string into many strings, then find only the line with the version number $interestingLine = ($pageContent.split("`n") | Select-string -Pattern $pattern).tostring().trim() #remove the whitespace and split on the assignment operator, then split on the double quote and select the correct item $filename = (($interestingLine.Replace(" ","").Split("=") | Select-string -Pattern $pattern).ToString().Trim().Split("`""))[1] $url = "https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/windows/x64/$($filename)" Write-Output $url } # PowerShell Wrapper for MDT, Standalone and Chocolatey Installation - (C)2015 xenappblog.com # Example 1: Start-Process "XenDesktopServerSetup.exe" -ArgumentList $unattendedArgs -Wait -Passthru # Example 2 Powershell: Start-Process powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy bypass -file $Destination # Example 3 EXE (Always use ' '): # $UnattendedArgs='/qn' # (Start-Process "$PackageName.$InstallerType" $UnattendedArgs -Wait -Passthru).ExitCode # Example 4 MSI (Always use " "): # $UnattendedArgs = "/i $PackageName.$InstallerType ALLUSERS=1 /qn /liewa $LogApp" # (Start-Process msiexec.exe -ArgumentList $UnattendedArgs -Wait -Passthru).ExitCode Clear-Host Write-Verbose "Setting Arguments" -Verbose $StartDTM = (Get-Date) $Vendor = "VMware" $Product = "Tools" $PackageName = "setup64" $Version = "$(Get-VMWareToolsVersion)" $InstallerType = "exe" $Source = "$PackageName" + "." + "$InstallerType" $LogPS = "${env:SystemRoot}" + "\Temp\$Vendor $Product $Version PS Wrapper.log" $LogApp = "${env:SystemRoot}" + "\Temp\$PackageName.log" $Destination = "${env:ChocoRepository}" + "\$Vendor\$Product\$Version\$packageName.$installerType" $UnattendedArgs = '/S /v /qn REBOOT=R' $URL = "$(Get-VMWareToolsUri)" $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue' Start-Transcript $LogPS if( -Not (Test-Path -Path $Version ) ) { New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $Version } CD $Version Write-Verbose "Downloading $Vendor $Product $Version" -Verbose If (!(Test-Path -Path $Source)) { Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri $url -OutFile $Source } Else { Write-Verbose "File exists. Skipping Download." -Verbose } Write-Verbose "Starting Installation of $Vendor $Product $Version" -Verbose (Start-Process "$PackageName.$InstallerType" $UnattendedArgs -Wait -Passthru).ExitCode Write-Verbose "Customization" -Verbose Write-Verbose "Stop logging" -Verbose $EndDTM = (Get-Date) Write-Verbose "Elapsed Time: $(($EndDTM-$StartDTM).TotalSeconds) Seconds" -Verbose Write-Verbose "Elapsed Time: $(($EndDTM-$StartDTM).TotalMinutes) Minutes" -Verbose Stop-Transcript |
Found a script error.
LIne 44 – you specify the URL for version 10.2.1 this forces the installation to always be that version (and not evergreen)
I edited the script to add:
$Downloadfile = $version -replace “(.*)\.(.*)”, ‘$1-$2’
then change $URL to:
$URL = “https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/windows/x64/VMware-tools-$downloadfile-x86_64.exe”
Thoughts on the tweak?
Thanks, the blog post have been updated. All evergreen scripts live here (cause I do not go back in time to correct blog post if bug is found) : https://github.com/haavarstein/Applications