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user2150250

Reputation: 5187

vmware-toolbox-cmd Command not found

I'm working with a Redhat VM that indicates VMware Tools OSPs is installed and running, since its VMware Tools status in vSphere is "Running (3rd-party/Independent)". I have also verified that the VMware Tools daemon, vmtoolsd, is running by running the following command ...

# pgrep -fl vmtoolsd

>> 6048 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd

However, whenever I try to run the vmware-toolbox-cmd command, it says command not found. What is this VM missing that it has VMware Tools OSPs installed but does not have the command for it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2867

Answers (2)

HackSlash
HackSlash

Reputation: 5811

If the message is

vmware-toolbox-cmd: Missing command
Try 'vmware-toolbox-cmd help' for more information.

then it's not the vmware-toolbox-cmd command that is missing. That is the error it returns when you don't give it a command. It's not a menu.

Running the suggested help command should give hints like this:

vmware-toolbox-cmd help
Usage: vmware-toolbox-cmd <command> [options] [subcommand]
Type 'vmware-toolbox-cmd help <command>' for help on a specific command.
Type 'vmware-toolbox-cmd -v' to see the VMware Tools version.
Use '-q' option to suppress stdout output.
Most commands take a subcommand.

Available commands:
   config
   device
   disk (not available on all operating systems)
   globalconf (not available on all operating systems)
   gueststore (not available on all operating systems)
   info
   logging
   script
   stat
   timesync
   upgrade (not available on all operating systems)

Upvotes: 0

Nullpointer
Nullpointer

Reputation: 1872

There is no GUI interface called vmware-toolbox with vmware player 5 (and other newer products), as per Installing and Configuring VMware Tools:

The graphical user interface for VMware Tools, which is sometimes called the VMware Tools control panel and which is available from the notification area in the guest operating system, has been deprecated

You can however find settings for the toolbox, say "Update automatically", in the graphical user interface of the VMWare Player on the host (as in Player -> Manage -> Virtual Machine Settings -> Options -> VMware Tools).

As for vmware-toolbox-cmd doesn't do anything"? You bet it does, read the doc above.

Upvotes: 0

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