---
name: "vmware-guestd"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "open-vm-tools"
version: "2008.11.18-130226-1lenny2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vmware-guestd"
---

# vmware-guestd(8)

vmware daemon

## NAME

vmware-guestd - vmware daemon

## SYNOPSIS

**vmware-guestd**

## DESCRIPTION

This is a userlevel daemon process. It runs the default soft power operation scripts in /etc/vmware-tools and starts guest application as a service.

## OPTIONS

vmware-guestd has no options.

## FILES

*/etc/pam.d/vmware-guestd*\
 */etc/vmware-tools/\*-default*

## SEE ALSO

[*vmware-checkvm*(1)](/vmware-checkvm/1.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsclient*(1)](/vmware-hgfsclient/1.md)\
 [*vmware-toolbox*(1)](/vmware-toolbox/1.md)\
 [*vmware-user*(1)](/vmware-user/1.md)\
 [*vmware-xferlogs*(1)](/vmware-xferlogs/1.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsmounter*(8)](/vmware-hgfsmounter/8.md)\
 [*vmware-user-suid-wrapper*(8)](/vmware-user-suid-wrapper/8.md)\
 [*vmblock*(9)](/vmblock/9.md)\
 [*vmhgfs*(9)](/vmhgfs/9.md)\
 [*vmmemctl*(9)](/vmmemctl/9.md)\
 [*vmsync*(9)](/vmsync/9.md)\
 [*vmxnet*(9)](/vmxnet/9.md)

## HOMEPAGE

More information about vmware-guestd and the Open VM Tools can be found at \<*http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/*\>.

## AUTHOR

Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. \<*http://www.vmware.com/*\>.

This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann \<*daniel@debian.org*\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).