Adding user mapping for guest VM : The guest operating system agent has been configured to disable the operation.

[arvindathere]

Hi  LucD,

I am trying to add user mapping for a guest VM with open vmware tools running.

VM -> Configure-> Guest user mappings . Am seeing the below error .

"The guest operating system agent has been configured to disable the operation."

Should i  enable this some where in the guest VM in some conf file ? If so where and how ?

Appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Arvind

[LucD]

Which Guest OS and which version of Oen VMware Tools are we talking about?

[arvindathere]

Hi LucD​,

The Guest OS is Cent OS 7 and the vmware tools is open vmware tools, version not sure.

Regards,

Arvind

[LucD]

I just tried with Open Source VMware Tools (not on CentOS but another Linux distro), and that works without an issue.
Could it be that the guest OS is not configured to accept X.509 certificates?

[arvindathere]

Oh. Thats good LucD . Do you know how to configure Linux VM to accept X509 certificates.

I searched and couldn't find the info.

Regards,

Arvind

[LucD]

I just installed a plain CentOS 7 box.

The VMware Tools, guest managed, are version 10309.

Guest User Mappings works out of the box.

Did you install your CentOS box with a specific Security Profile?

I used the Standard System Profile.