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VMware Tools update issue

Recently I decided to update VMware Tools on VMs because most of them showed Out of date in VI client. For some reason several Linux VMs didn’t update even though VI client showed no error. I tried to update from inside VM by running /usr/sbin/vmware-tools-upgrade and it showed that there is not enough space in /tmp. I enlarged /tmp from 128 to 512MB and update went fine this time.

Take into account that:

  1. Windows VM will most likely be rebooted after update.
  2. In Linux VMmware Tools may not start automatically. If it’s the case start it manually by calling /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start.
  3. Network interfaces in Linux may go down after VMware Tools update. Boot them manually.

 

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