Jul 27, 2010

VMware Tools and Ubuntu 9.10 problems

With update of VMware ESXi 4.0 to VMware Hypervisor 4.1 I had to reinstall all vmware-tools on all my Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machines. There was no way for me to figure out why it does run on one of them automagically and not on any other machine.

I googled the internet left and right and no help. So I decided to figure out the thing by myself. The thing is that there was a link missing for start-up script. So here is the whole thing needed to be done:

cd /etc/rcS.d
sudo ln -s ../init.d/vmware-tools S38vmware-tools

After that everything works OK again.