Re: [open-vm-tools-discuss] open-vm-tools on Fedora 9

[Adar D. <ad...@vm...>]

> >> It seemed to work fine and shows up in "dkms status"...
> >> but I still get "VMware Tools is not installed."  and
> >> copy/paste does not work. Should it?
> >
> > Can you verify that vmware-guestd is running? The UI's Tools status
> notification comes from messages sent by vmware-guestd.
> >
> > Are you using a console or are you within an X11 session? Can you
> verify that vmware-user is running?
>
> X11. Yep, "ps x" shows both are running.

OK, could you upload your VMX log (vmware.log) as well as the vmware-user and vmware-guestd logs? You can obtain the latter by editing the tools.conf file (it's probably in /etc/vmware-tools) and adding the following two lines:

log = "true"
log.file = "/path/to/file"

After that, the processes should start logging themselves to /path/to/file and /path/to/file.<pid> (vmware-user typically can't write to the same log as vmware-guestd). I'd especially like to see the logging done at startup for both processes, so after you've enabled logging, restart them.