Am 01.02.2018 um 10:29 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: > Hi, > >> maybe I didn't wrote it very well. If I start the service after boot >> manualy "service open-vm-tools start" it works, but not on restarting >> the VM, it does not come up :/ >> >> Also with the tools.conf changes no log for the boot itself, also >> nothing in journalcl > > ah! then I failed to understand you. > > Is the service actually enabled? > You'll have to use the systemd toold to debug the startup I fear. > I'm running testing and various backports versions on a growing number > of machines without problems at all. > > What is the output of > systemctl cat open-vm-tools.service > > and what is the output of > systemd-detect-virt
Hi, for the public: systemd does not start open-vm-tools at all in this scenario. If you configure open-vm-tools.service to use DefaultDependencies=yes instead of =no, it works as a workaround. -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ E-Mail: pmatth...@debian.org patr...@linux-dev.org */
