VMWare Tools logging ? No Log file created

[ds2015]

Hello,

i have SuSE Linux with VMWare Tools.

I add in the /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf

[logging]

log=true

log.file="/var/log/vmwaretools.log"

log.level=debug

But the file is not create or write in.

What did i wrong ?

Is this a Problem that the "free" VMWareTools was insalled before ?

I like to know why the Scripts:

/usr/sbin/pre-freezescript and /usr/sbin/postthaw-script

are not start if i run a snapshot

Thanks

[Techie01]

After making the changes in the file, have you restarted the vmtoold service from the GOS

>>

• /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start
• /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh stop
• /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh restart

>>

[ds2015]

thanks, i forgot to write, i did the restart..... but no change

[suvrobhattachar]

are you still facing the problem ?

[ds2015]

yes, have still the problem

[MKguy · Accepted solution]

You configuration in /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf should look like this:

[logging]
log = true
vmtoolsd.level = debug
vmtoolsd.handler = file

vmtoolsd.data = /var/log/vmtoolsd.log

See this article:

Enabling debug logging for VMware Tools within a guest operating system

With these settings I can get the logging to work in a SuSe guest VM.

I like to know why the Scripts:

/usr/sbin/pre-freezescript and /usr/sbin/postthaw-script

are not start if i run a snapshot

For starters the file names should be:

/usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script

/usr/sbin/post-thaw-script

Also these files must be executable with permissions of 0755 and owner root. Make sure this is set on the script files.

Also you can check the VM's vmware.log file on the datastore which records VM-related messages from the ESXi host point of view.

[ds2015]

thanks, i have deinstalled the original vmtools

an reinstalled the openVMTools from SuSE

and with your config it works!