Warning when starting vmtoolsd.service

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

When checking the status of the vmtoolsd service using:

# systemctl status vmtoolsd.service

the following warning message is shown:

[...]
vmsvc[6317]: [ warning] [hgfsd] Setting HGFS server capability failed!" 
[...]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • open-vm-tools-9.10.2-5.el7_2.x86_64

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