I've done a "physical to virtual" copy of my Gentoo installation (by
hand, no tools used) in order to experiment in it rather than in the
real installation. It went smooth; just the usual "cp -a
/mnt/physical/* /mnt/virtual/" along with chrooting into virtual and
setting up grub with a previously compiled kernel and changing fstab.

I booted it in VMWare and installed the vmware-tools. I had to create
the "/etc/init.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d" directories first though. The
tools compiled almost fine (I had to change a few typedefs due to a
linux header clash) and then did "rc-update add vmware-tools default".
However, on booting, vmware-guestd doesn't always start; sometimes it
does, sometimes it doesn't. It's loaded automatically by the vmware
kernel modules (at least that's the plan).

Is anyone else having the same issue with vmware-guestd?