pk wrote:
> 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?

Manually; the ones in portage seem hopelessly outdated: "Available
versions: ~*4.5.3-r1 ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.2 ~5.5.3 {X}"