Monthly Archives: June 2015
Huh? Why ‘service vmware-tools status’ no longer works on newer Linux VMs – Tip of the Week
After deploying a CentOS v6.6 VM via vCloud Director today, I was puzzled that I couldn’t confirm whether VMware Tools was running after installing it. [root@ZenOSS-POC ~]# service vmware-tools status vmware-tools: unrecognized service Huh? Surely not! [root@ZenOSS-POC ~]# ps -ef|grep … Continue reading
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Tagged centos, chkconfig, linux, red hat, redhat, service, tools, unrecognized, upstart, vmware
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Michael Abboud 