# ps -ef | grep vmware-guestd
root 10213 1 0 15:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin32/vmw are-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
root 10446 10429 0 15:44 pts/0 00:00:00 grep vmware-guestd
OR
# ps -ef | grep vmware-tools
root 10213 1 0 15:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin32/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
root 10559 10429 0 15:52 pts/0 00:00:00 grep vmware-tools
# vmware-config-tools.pl -h
Use of uninitialized value $gSystem{"system"} in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 2421.
VMware Tools 4.0.0 build-171294 for configurator
Usage: /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl [[-][-]d[efault]] [[-][-]c[ompile]]
[[-][-]p[rebuilt]] [[-][-]t[ry-modules]] [[-][-]p[reserve]]
[[-][-]o[verwrite][[-][-]m[odules-only]] [[-][-]k[ernel-version] version]
. default: Automatically answer questions with the proposed answer.
. compile: Force the compilation of kernel modules.
. prebuilt: Force the use of pre-built kernel modules.
. try-modules: Try to load all the compatible modules . preserve: Always
preserve user-modified configuration files.
. overwrite: Always overwrite user-modified configuration files.from the VMware
Tools package.
. modules-only: Only build/install kernel modules, skip all other configuration
steps.
. kernel-version: Build/install modules for the given kernel version instead of
the running one, implies modules-only, skip-stop-start and compile.
Command line arguments: The acceptable characters are:
the letters A, B, C, ...,
the letters a, b, c, ...,
the numbers 0, 1, 2, ...,
and the special characters '_' and '-' and '='.
# grep buildNr /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
my $buildNr;
$buildNr = '4.0.0 build-171294';
return remove_whitespaces($buildNr);