From: pk@pk.invalid   
      
   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?   
      
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