From: Brian McKerr <bmckerr at gmail.com> > Running vSphere 5.0 and I install tools from the VMware tar.gz file with ' > vmware-install-tools.pl -d' it seems to do all the usual/right things. Once > completed there is no 'vmware-tools' listed in 'chkconfig > --list'. A reboot > of the box leaves vmware tools not running. Did you check that the init script is really not there? ll /etc/init.d/vmware-tools If it is there, you just need to run: chkconfig --add vmware-tools chkconfig vmware-tools on JD