OpenSuse Leap 42.2 Guest on VMWare Player -> VMware Tools Not working after Restart

Question

I installed openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64.iso as a guest OS on VMware® Workstation 12 Player 12.5.5 on my Win7 Host System.

uname -r -> 4.4.27-2-default

I just clicked "next" on every setup step ( choose KDE Desktop) of Open Suse and I did NOT click any button or whatever to install VMware Tools.

After the installation VMware Tools is working ( again without any installation ). I can dragNdrop files etc.

I see the following processes running in my openSUSE:

I rebooted the machine ( without doing anything after the installatin) and vmware tools is not working anymore.

I still see this processes started after reboot:

I tried to start "vmtoolsd &" as my local user which leads to the same processes running as in picture one.

Comming from the Windows world I do not understand why vmware-tools is not working anymore.

I also tried to install open-vm-tools like in this tutorial but I could not start it (vmware-user-suid-wrapper error: could not open proc/fs/vmblock/dev)

So because the original vmware-tools works every time when I install a new VM ( again its automatically there I did not mount the cd from vmware-tools and installed it ) until I restart, I need help.

Is there something I have to start manually ?

Answer 1

running /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr & will resolve this.

It seems you've resolved this yourself on de opensuse forums I'm posting your solution here since it helped me.

Answer 2

I would start by checking if a service is available, using sudo systemctl status vmtoolsd, and see if that returns anything (alternatively, try sudo systemctl list-units | grep tool).

If you need to enable it, you can run sudo systemctl start vmtoolsd, or whatever the appropriate service name is.

According to the OpenSUSE docs for VMWare tools, most of the functionality is in the kernel, so it may also be it isn't a requirement to run the service - that would I think depend on your actual needs.