open-vm-tools manually start

[PRISCO F. <pri...@gm...>]

Hi guys,
 I am looking to the open-vm-tools compiling phase.

I did not finished the correct procedure, I mean if I don't want to "make
install" at the end of the compilation, how can I start the vmtoolsd
"manually"?

By looking to my Virtual Machine I can see:

root@ubuntuvm:~# ps -ef | grep vmtoolsd
root      1802     1  0 15:13 ?        00:00:00 */usr/sbin/vmtoolsd*
user      2648  2041  0 15:13 ?        00:00:00
*/usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin32/vmtoolsd
-n vmusr --blockFd 3*

Is not clear for me if I have to lunch vmtoolsd binary file by passing the
previous parameters.
I am asking because I am using this VM just to build, I need to lunch the
executable file on another machine.

I have opened another post regarding hearbeat feature.
I need the heartbeat functionality to check if from my host vsphere machine
(for some reason) my VM is locked, I hope that HA feature will restart it
in case VM doesn't answer to some events.


Could you help me to find "open-vm-tools" documentation?

Tks guys.
Prisco