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if we logged in as root then run following commands to check or start, restart or stop vmware tools services....
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools stop
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
if we have not loggedin as root then run the following commands
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools stop
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
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regards
MrVMware