[Solved] VMware Tools installed, but according to ESXi they're not...

[Mr. Happy]

I installed OS-VMware plugin and it installs fine, according to OPNsense, but in ESXi it says VMware Tools are not installed.
How can I find out what went wrong?
ps -ef gives but a few processes, not what I expected....
`
/usr/local/opnsense/version/vmware
/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/scripts/vmware
/usr/local/share/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware
`
are the only files/folders I found with vmware in the name, the first has a version in it (1.5) the second is an empty folder and the third has a network folder in it with a script...
Running that script does nothing, as far as I can tell...

[bartjsmit]

I'm seeing version 2147483647 (Guest Managed) in vSphere and ps aux | grep vm gives:

root    ...  0:00.00 [vmdaemon]
root    ... 10:58.48 /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/tools.conf -p /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc

Bart...

[pyrodex]

I installed OS-VMware plugin and it installs fine, according to OPNsense, but in ESXi it says VMware Tools are not installed.
How can I find out what went wrong?
ps -ef gives but a few processes, not what I expected....
`
/usr/local/opnsense/version/vmware
/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/scripts/vmware
/usr/local/share/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware
`
are the only files/folders I found with vmware in the name, the first has a version in it (1.5) the second is an empty folder and the third has a network folder in it with a script...
Running that script does nothing, as far as I can tell...

I had this on initial plugin install but had to reboot for it to startup.

[franco]

# pkg info -l open-vm-tools-nox11
open-vm-tools-nox11-11.1.0,2:
   /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.example
   /usr/local/bin/vm-support
   /usr/local/bin/vmhgfs-fuse
   /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
   /usr/local/bin/vmware-checkvm
   /usr/local/bin/vmware-hgfsclient
   /usr/local/bin/vmware-namespace-cmd
   /usr/local/bin/vmware-rpctool
   /usr/local/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd
   /usr/local/bin/vmware-vmblock-fuse
   /usr/local/bin/vmware-xferlogs
   /usr/local/etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
   /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd
   /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-kmod
   /usr/local/include/vmGuestLib/includeCheck.h
   /usr/local/include/vmGuestLib/vmGuestLib.h
   /usr/local/include/vmGuestLib/vmSessionId.h
   /usr/local/include/vmGuestLib/vm_basic_types.h
   /usr/local/lib/libguestlib.a
   /usr/local/lib/libguestlib.so
   /usr/local/lib/libguestlib.so.0
   /usr/local/lib/libguestlib.so.0.0.0
   /usr/local/lib/libhgfs.a
   /usr/local/lib/libhgfs.so
   /usr/local/lib/libhgfs.so.0
   /usr/local/lib/libhgfs.so.0.0.0
   /usr/local/lib/libvmtools.a
   /usr/local/lib/libvmtools.so
   /usr/local/lib/libvmtools.so.0
   /usr/local/lib/libvmtools.so.0.0.0
   /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/libhgfsServer.so
   /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/libvix.so
   /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libguestInfo.so
   /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libpowerOps.so
   /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libtimeSync.so
   /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libvmbackup.so
   /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/drivers/vmblock.ko
   /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/drivers/vmmemctl.ko
   /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/vmguestlib.pc
   /usr/local/sbin/mount_vmblock
   /usr/local/share/licenses/open-vm-tools-nox11-11.1.0,2/LGPL21
   /usr/local/share/licenses/open-vm-tools-nox11-11.1.0,2/LICENSE
   /usr/local/share/licenses/open-vm-tools-nox11-11.1.0,2/catalog.mk
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/de/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/de/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/en/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/en/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/es/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/es/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/fr/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/fr/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/it/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/it/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/ja/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/ja/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/ko/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/ko/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/zh_CN/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/zh_CN/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/zh_TW/toolboxcmd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/open-vm-tools/messages/zh_TW/vmtoolsd.vmsg
   /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default
   /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/poweron-vm-default
   /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/resume-vm-default
   /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware/network
   /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/statechange.subr
   /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/suspend-vm-default

Package looks ok to me. Drivers may not load until rebooted, maybe that changed in 20.7 with 12.1 OS change?


Cheers,
Franco

[Mr. Happy]

Reinstalled the driver and rebooted...
This time it worked...
Apparently a reboot is needed...

Thanks!