Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> 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).

Did you install the tools manually or by emerging vmware-workstation-tools?