Error upgrading VMware Tools.

Summary:

When attempting an automatic upgrade of tools on a RHEL VM, the above error shows up w/ no additional details in vCenter tasks & events.  This is a possible bug as the following entries show up in the VM’s vmware.log:

  •  vmx| TOOLS INSTALL Copying upgrader files from /usr/lib/vmware/tools-upgraders into guest at /tmp/vmware-root
  • vcpu-0| TOOLS INSTALL Error copying upgrader binary into guest. success = 0, HgfsStatus = 1

Resolution:

Confirm and/or create the path /tmp/vmware-root on the RHEL guest.  In my case, the /tmp/ mount was there, but the sub-directory vmware-root was not.  After creating it, the vmware tools were able to upgrade successfully.  VMWare has a KB that is somewhat related, but only mentions Windows.  I would expect VMWare to create the directory if it didn’t find it, but maybe there is some reason behind this.

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