Warning when starting vmtoolsd.service
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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