If anyone lands on this, The problem is that the machine is built in AWS, and vmtoolsd does not start at all when outside of VMware environment. The solution is to build a packer image with the pac...
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If anyone lands on this, The problem is that the machine is built in AWS, and vmtoolsd does not start at all when outside of VMware environment. The solution is to build a packer image with the packer VMware library, or manually start the vm for the first time.